Al Capp
- Alfred Gerald Caplin
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- Capp, Al
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1909-09-28
- Place of birth
- United States
- Date of death
- 1979-11-05
- Place of death
- United States
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Alfred 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 strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats (in the years 1937–45) and Long Sam (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning".
Capp's comic strips dealt with urban experiences in the Northern United States until the year he introduced "Li'l Abner". Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about the fictional Southern town of Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally. M. Thomas Inge says Capp made a large personal fortune through the strip and "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South".
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Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist.
Last modified: 2020-11-05 (revision #39921)
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- Al Capp wrote Das Modell
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