Al Capp Remembered

Author : Elliot Caplin
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726300
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al Capp Remembered written by Elliot Caplin and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about the goings on in the family of "Li'l Abner" cartoonist Al Capp (1909-1949) by his brother Elliot Caplin. Includes bandw photos and cartoon illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608197859
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al Capp written by Michael Schumacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Schumacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196232
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al Capp written by Michael Schumacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the cartoonist offers insight into his complicated character, covering such topics as the childhood accident that cost him his leg, his turbulent apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, and his conservative political views.

Author : Al Capp
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Li'l Abner written by Al Capp and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1978 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Al Capp presents 26 of his favorite sequences from his cartoon strip.

Author : Anthony Harkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195189507
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hillbilly written by Anthony Harkins and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374298556
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartoon County written by Cullen Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School, written by the son of the artist behind the popular strips "Prince Valiant" and "Big Ben Bolt, " explores the achievements and pop-culture influence of these artists in the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Brannon Costello
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030198
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comics and the U.S. South written by Brannon Costello and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, backroads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside independent and alternative comics. Some essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about southern regionalism and how slave narratives can help us reread Swamp Thing; others examine how creators such as Walt Kelly (Pogo), Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby), Kyle Baker (Nat Turner), and Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans after the Deluge) draw upon the unique formal properties of the comics to question and revise familiar narratives of race, class, and sexuality; and another considers how southern writer Randall Kenan adapted elements of comics form to prose fiction. With essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Comics and the U.S. South contributes to and also productively reorients the most significant and compelling conversations in both comics scholarship and in southern studies.

Author : Alexander Theroux
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560973404
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of Al Capp written by Alexander Theroux and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-nominated author of Darconville's Cat and Three Wogs delivers this slender-yet-rich monograph on the controversial life of cartoonist Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner. "The left eventually broke his heart," wrote John Updike of Capp. A genuine American mythmaker and celebrated funnyman, Capp used his strip for years to expose greed, corruption and social injustice, while bringing belly laughs and dramatic suspense to the lives of millions of people every day. Theroux, however, dives head-first into the often glossed-over side of Capp, delivering a keen (but not without compassion) analysis of Capp's degeneration into a bitter, disillusioned, conservative extremist, who began using his strip in later years to attack the very causes he once championed. This is a rich and compelling investigation into the psyche of a paradoxical American icon, who at the height of his fame was one of America's highest-paid and most well-known entertainers, gracing the cover of Time and other magazines, and franchising Li'l Abner into film, theater, radio, merchandising and more. Illustrated throughout with examples of Capp's cartoons.

Author : Al Capp
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585674626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Life and Happy Times of the Schmoo written by Al Capp and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty years ago, America was taken by storm when Al Capp introduced the Shmoo in his comic strip Li'l Abner. The adorable squash-shaped character was so popular it immediately spawned the largest merchandising craze in the nation's history. In the words of Lifemagazine, the nation was "Shmoo-struck." The Short Lifeand Happy Times of the Shmoocollects, for the first time in one volume, Capp's essential comic strips about the Shmoo. This is Al Capp and his incisive social criticism at its best.

Author : Milton Arthur Caniff
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578064380
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton Caniff written by Milton Arthur Caniff and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon