September 28
LI’L ABNER DAY
The man who created Li’l Abner was born on this day in
1909 at New Haven, Connecticut. Alfred Gerald Caplin,
better known as Al Capp, was responsible for all the happenings in the
fictitious hillbilly town of Dogpatch.
From 1934 until 1977, Capp wrote and drew the cartoon, Li’l Abner, with its cast of wonderful characters, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, their son Abner, the lovely Daisy Mae, Fearless Fosdick and the lovable Schmoos. Al Capp even invented a holiday, Sadie Hawkins Day. Li’l Abner wasn’t just a funny comic strip. It became a Broadway show and a Hollywood movie, too. But above all else, Al Capp used the characters in the Sunday funnies for political satire. It was fairly common to see public figures being lampooned in Li’l Abner. Al Capp would have had a field day with today’s political antics. |
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