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Al Capp

Al (Alfred Gerald Caplin) Capp (1909 - 1979) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York.  Al Capp is known for Cartoon strip, illustration.

Al Capp was a celebrity-cartoonist and creator of Lil Abner.  The strip began in 1934, and the sardonic, pugnacious Capp masterminded it until its end in 1977. During the long life span of the satirical hillbilly saga, he swung from liberal to conservative politically, earned a great deal of money and publicity, appeared on radio, television, and in any other medium that would give him an opportunity to hold forth. He carried on some impressive feuds, and gave the outward impression he was having an enormously good time living his life.

He was born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Connecticut. "My mother and father had been brought to this country when they were infants," he once said. "Their fathers had found that the great promise of America was true, -it was no crime to be a Jew." No crime, but not as advantageous, Capp felt, as being a gentile. He remembered his early years as a period of struggle and lack of enough to eat. "In my real childhood the hunger was   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10061 characters.]  Artist bio

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