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Li'l Abner Dailies #8
Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 8: 1942
As America becomes involved with World War II, Capp began to address social satire with even more vigor. This issue introduces Available Jones and Joe Btfsplk, world's worst jinx. This eighth volume reprints the 1942 daily strips and includes an introduction by Maurice Horn and an article about Capp's contributions to the Defense and Treasury Departments, the Red Cross, and military hospitals. Also included is an article that puts the strip into the historical context of 1942.
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182 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 1990
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Al Capp
142 books7 followersAlfred Gerald Caplin (1909-1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist. He is best known as the creator, writer and artist of the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which run for 43 years from 1934 to 1977.
Capp was born in 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, of a poor family of East European Jewish heritage. His childhood was scared by a serious accident: after being run over by a trolley car, nine years old Alfred had his left leg partially amputated. This early trauma possibly had an impact on Capp's cynical humour, as later represented in his strips. His father, Otto Philip Caplin, a failed businessman and an amateur cartoonist, is credited for introducing Al and his two brothers to making comics.
After some training in art schools in New England, in 1932 Al Capp moved to New York with the intent of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. The same year he married Catherine Wingate Cameron. In the first couple of years of his career Capp worked as an assistant/ghost artist on Ham Fischer's strip 'Joe Palooka', while preparing to pitch his own comic strips to the newspaper syndicate.
His strip Li'l Abner was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight American newspapers to immediate success. The comic started as an hillibilly slapstick, then shifted over the year in the direction of satire, black humor and social commentary. The strip run until 1977, written and mostly drawn by Capp.
A lifelong chain smoker, All Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.
Capp was born in 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, of a poor family of East European Jewish heritage. His childhood was scared by a serious accident: after being run over by a trolley car, nine years old Alfred had his left leg partially amputated. This early trauma possibly had an impact on Capp's cynical humour, as later represented in his strips. His father, Otto Philip Caplin, a failed businessman and an amateur cartoonist, is credited for introducing Al and his two brothers to making comics.
After some training in art schools in New England, in 1932 Al Capp moved to New York with the intent of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. The same year he married Catherine Wingate Cameron. In the first couple of years of his career Capp worked as an assistant/ghost artist on Ham Fischer's strip 'Joe Palooka', while preparing to pitch his own comic strips to the newspaper syndicate.
His strip Li'l Abner was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight American newspapers to immediate success. The comic started as an hillibilly slapstick, then shifted over the year in the direction of satire, black humor and social commentary. The strip run until 1977, written and mostly drawn by Capp.
A lifelong chain smoker, All Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.
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January 31, 2021
Toujours aussi débile. Toujours aussi génial.
Exemple de dialogue. Ici entre Joe BFSTPLK, qui à chacune de ses apparitions est désigné dans un "caption" comme "the world's worst jinx" (jinx = celui qui porte malheur) et Mammy Yokum, la mère de Li'l Abner, petite mamie à jupe courte et bottes, qui fume la pipe et envoie tout le monde au tapis avec ses uppercuts.
Joe BFSTPLK (s'adressant de loin à la famille Yokum) : "SHORE IS GLAD T'SEE YO',YOKUMS AGIN. AH WON'T COME ANY NEARER ON ACCOUNT (SIGH!) -ANYONE AH COMES NEAR HAS TH' WORLD'S WORST LUCK-FO' SOME REASON !
Mammy Yokum : "MEBBE TH' REASON IS THET YO' IS TH' WORLD'S WORST JINX, JOE BTFSPLK !"
Comme on voit, pas à mettre non plus dans les mains de votre prof d'anglais...
Exemple de dialogue. Ici entre Joe BFSTPLK, qui à chacune de ses apparitions est désigné dans un "caption" comme "the world's worst jinx" (jinx = celui qui porte malheur) et Mammy Yokum, la mère de Li'l Abner, petite mamie à jupe courte et bottes, qui fume la pipe et envoie tout le monde au tapis avec ses uppercuts.
Joe BFSTPLK (s'adressant de loin à la famille Yokum) : "SHORE IS GLAD T'SEE YO',YOKUMS AGIN. AH WON'T COME ANY NEARER ON ACCOUNT (SIGH!) -ANYONE AH COMES NEAR HAS TH' WORLD'S WORST LUCK-FO' SOME REASON !
Mammy Yokum : "MEBBE TH' REASON IS THET YO' IS TH' WORLD'S WORST JINX, JOE BTFSPLK !"
Comme on voit, pas à mettre non plus dans les mains de votre prof d'anglais...
May 20, 2020
One star or two? That was my question as I got to the last 20 pages of this collection of the LI'L ABNER comic strip, then I liked the final story so much, and more importantly, found it so interesting that I suddenly liked the book three stars worth. Go figure.
May 30, 2023
The year Li'l Abner's humor turned dark.
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