Why are students willing to pay a millionaire cartoonist $3,000 a shot to insult them from a lecture platform? “I think it’s a love-hate relationship,” says Al Capp, the raspy-voiced creator of Li’I ...

In the comic-strip world of Li’l Abner the unthinkable is always happening. But few readers ever expected the most unthinkable event of all: the (“gulp”) marriage of Li’l Abner to Daisy Mae. Though ...

No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle (Fantagraphics; $24.99). The strip that did ...

Despite their striking resemblance, Li’l Abner, the midcentury comic strip hero, was everything his creator Al Capp was not: an unlettered, unambitious, all-American hillbilly who was strapping ...

48.26 x 66.68 in. (122.6 x 169.4 cm.) ...

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Previously published as two separate works: The life and times of the shmoo. 1948; and, The return of the shmoo. 1959. Based on the author's comic strip: Li'l Abner.