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Over the years, Li'l Abner characters have inspired compositions in pop, jazz, country, and rock and roll: The Kickapoo Joy Juice Jolt (1946) from The Li'l Abner Suite, was composed for The Alvino Rey Orchestra by Bud Estes. Kickapoo Joy Juice, composed by Duke Ellington, was recorded live at Carnegie Hall in December, 1947.
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- August 13, 1934
- November 13, 1977
- Al Capp
Jul 14, 2011 · Li'l Abner was a comic strip drawn by Al Capp that appeared in newspapers from 1934 to 1977. Those born after the strip ceased publication may look at samples and see only humor based on ...
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Family Album. Throughout the years fans of the Li’l Abner comic strip were not only entertained by creator Al Capp’s major characters, Li’l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy Yokum, Pappy Yokum, and Fearless Fosdick, but they were also treated to a constant and colorfully unique world of supporting characters.
Al Capp. Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977.
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- Alfred Gerald Caplin, September 28, 1909, New Haven, Connecticut
- Catherine Wingate (Cameron) Capp (1932–1979; his death)
- November 5, 1979 (aged 70), South Hampton, New Hampshire
A seminal and long-running (1934–77) newspaper comic strip by Al Capp, which detailed the bizarre lives and loves of the hillbilly inhabitants of Dogpatch, USA. The title character was the perpetually 19-year-old big-hearted lunkhead, the son of spitfire Pansy "Mammy" Yokum and the dull-witted useless Lucifer "Pappy" Yokum.
Mar 4, 2013 · The book describes his intense, 20 year feud with his former boss, Joe Palooka ‘s Ham Fisher—who he caricatured as Happy Vermin, a fat, ruthless, mercenary cartoonist—in often chilling detail.
Among the many odd and eccentric characters that Capp concocted were Moonbeam McSwine, Earthquake McGoon, Evil Eye Fleagle, Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat (brewers of Kickapoo Joy Juice), Lena the Hyena (who lived in the country of Lower Slobbovia, somewhat of an icebound Dogpatch, "where the favorite dish of the natives is raw polar bear ...
