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Article: Capp, Al 19O9-1979
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CAPP, AL 19O9-1979
Comic-strip creator
Famous Comic-Strip Artist
At age twenty-five Al Capp created the comic strip
Lit Abner
, which he wrote and drew until he ended it forty-four years later. During his career Capp was one of the best-known comic-strip creators in the United States, and he
courted the media attention that came his way. John Steinbeck hailed him as "the best satirist since Laurence Sterne/' adding, "He has taken our customs, our dreams, our habits of thought, our social structure, our economics, examined them gently like amusing bugs. Then he has pulled a nose a little longer, made outstanding ears a
little
more outstanding, described it in dreadful folk poetry and ...
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