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Cartoonist Al Capp presents 26 of his favorite sequences from his cartoon strip.
Author : Al Capp
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Cartoonist Al Capp presents 26 of his favorite sequences from his cartoon strip.
Author : Al Capp
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780878160365
Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608197859
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 extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country. With unprecedented access to Capp's archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have written a probing biography. Capp's story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure-told here with authority and heart.
Author : Al Capp
Publisher : Library of American Comics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 9781613771235
In Volume 4 in The Complete Li'l Abner...You'll Believe a Hillbilly Can Fly! High-octane humor and cockeyed characters -- it's the Cappian way! Sit a spell and you'll meet Available Jones (Is yo' available, Available?), Swami Riva, Big Stanislouse, Joe Btfsplk (the world's greatest jinx!), Dorothy Lamour (yes, that Dorothy Lamour), Lorna Goon, Orville Wolf, Cherry Blossom, the parents of Gat Garson, Sadie Hawkins V, Dinsmore Jerque, J.P. Fangsby, Tiny Mite, and that hog-wallowin' bundle of pulchritude, Moonbeam McSwine! They help make 1941 and 1942 fast, funny, and unforgettable!
Author : Al Capp
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Appalachians (People)
ISBN : 9780030440717
Cartoonist Al Capp presents 26 of his favorite sequences from his cartoon strip.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Al Capp's cartoons of Dogpatch's favorite son revealed as satiric culture for the common man.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release :
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Author : Al Capp
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Mountain people
ISBN :
Author : Abner Dean
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1681370492
What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator—drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many other publications—Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them to a deeper, stranger purpose. With an inimitable mixture of wit, earnestness, and enigmatic surrealism, Dean uses this most ephemeral of forms to explore the deepest mysteries of human existence. What Am I Doing Here?, Dean’s second book and perhaps his best, depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which everyone is naked but acts like they’re clothed—a world of club-wielding commuters and byzantine inventions, secret fears and perverse satisfactions. Through it all strolls (or crawls, or floats, or stumbles) Dean’s unclad Everyman, searching for love, happiness, and the answers to life’s biggest questions. This NYRC edition is a jacketed hardcover with extra-thick paper, and features brand-new, restored scans of the original artwork throughout.
Author : Al Capp
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :