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...
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Li'l Abner (category Characters created by Al Capp)
fictional mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and illustrated by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934, through...
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recordings in L.A. - The Cats (Dutch), 2014, pages 16, 62-64 Worldcat, Al Capps Discogs NY Times, Al Capps filmography Al Capps discography at Discogs...
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Ham Fisher (section Feud with Al Capp)
hired (among others) Al Capp, who later achieved fame as the writer-cartoonist of Li'l Abner. While ghosting on Joe Palooka, Capp claimed to have created...
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Shmoo (category Characters created by Al Capp)
(plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979); the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner...
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Falls. It was based on the comic strip Li'l Abner, created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional village called Dogpatch. The park opened in 1968...
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Joe Btfsplk (category Characters created by Al Capp)
Btfsplk is a character in the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner by cartoonist Al Capp. The hapless Btfsplk means well, but he is "the world's worst jinx"[citation...
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Sadie Hawkins Day (category Characters created by Al Capp)
Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977). The annual comic strip storyline...
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Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977). The inhabitants of Dogpatch were mostly lazy hillbillies...
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Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies, but it is also...
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Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, Allen Ginsberg and others, and all but the hostile Capp sang on the peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance"...
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(2001). "Al Capp's South: Appalachian Humor in Li'l Abner". Studies in American Humor. 3 (8): 4–20. Arnold, Edwin T (1997). "Abner Unpinned: Al Capp's 'Li'l...
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Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp. In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November, on which...
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Li'l Abner is a 1940 film based on the comic strip Li'l Abner created by Al Capp. The three most recognizable names associated with the film are Buster...
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socially backward, remote, impoverished or unenlightened. First coined by Al Capp in 1946, the term has also been used by Americans to refer in an informal...
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Fearless Fosdick (category Characters created by Al Capp)
Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977). Fearless Fosdick...
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Shmoo is a cartoon character created by Al Capp in the strip Li'l Abner. Shmoo or Schmoo may refer to: Shmoos, nickname of the Cosmic Ray Detection Units...
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musical comedy film based on the comic strip of the same name created by Al Capp and the successful Broadway musical of the same name that opened in 1956...
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was a fictional beverage coined in the American comic strip Li'l Abner. Al Capp, the cartoonist, described the beverage as "a liquor of such stupefying...
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the world." Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of the comic strip Li'l Abner, satirized Baez as "Joanie Phoanie" during the 1960s. Capp's satirized Joanie was...
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Rockwell was contacted by writer Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp, with the suggestion that the three of them should make a daily comic strip...
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publisher willing to take on a reprinting of the Martin Luther King comic Al Capp Studios packaged [Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story]," which...
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series based on the character from the Li'l Abner comic strip created by Al Capp, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September...
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admiration of certain writers. In 1953, he wrote that he considered cartoonist Al Capp, creator of the satirical Li'l Abner, "possibly the best writer in the...
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with an extra letter: Elliott A. Caplin. He was the younger brother of Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Caplin graduated...
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Uncredited Musical film based on the comic strip of the same name created by Al Capp and the successful Broadway musical of the same name that opened in 1956...
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Capp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Al Capp (1909–1979), American cartoonist and humorist David A. Capp (born 1950), American...
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Broom-Hilda came from Elliot Caplin, brother of Li'l Abner cartoonist Al Capp. He described the main character to Myers, who responded with a sketch...
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followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly (Popeye), Al Capp (Li'l Abner) and Ray Bailey [fr] (Bruce Gentry). By March 1947, the NCS...
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Features launched its first original strip, Al Capp's Li'l Abner. As Li'l Abner's popularity increased, creator Capp lampooned United Features in his strip-within-a-strip...
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