Ebook: Al Capp a life to the contrary
Author: Capp Al, Kitchen Denis, Schumacher Michael
- Tags: Dessinateurs de bandes dessinées--États-Unis, Livres numériques, Biography, Capp Al -- 1909-1980, Dessinateurs de bandes dessinées -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as "hogwash" and "double-whammy." Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain. Though Li'l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg-leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a twenty-year feud that ended in Fisher's suicide. Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became...