Article: Capp, Al 19O9-1979

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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