Abner typically had no visible means of support, but sometimes earned his livelihood as a "crescent cutter" for the Little Wonder Privy Company which later changed to "mattress tester" for the Stunned Ox Mattress Company. (Although it is also the approximate Northern European pronunciation of the name " Joachim".) In Capp's satirical and often complex plots, Abner was a country bumpkin Candide-a paragon of innocence in a sardonically dark and cynical world. Capp derived the family name "Yokum" as a combination of yokel and hokum. He lived in a ramshackle log cabin with his pint-sized parents. A naive, simpleminded, gullible and sweet-natured hillbilly. Li'l Abner Yokum: Abner was 6′ 3″ and perpetually 19 years old. ( September 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Capp "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South." The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. It was originally distributed by United Feature Syndicate and, later by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.Ĭomic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li'l Abner, the first strip based in the South. The Sunday page debuted six months after the daily, on February 24, 1935. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years – from August 13, 1934, through November 13, 1977. It features a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe. Simon & Schuster, HRW, Kitchen Sink Press, Dark Horse, The Library of American Comics "It's Jack Jawbreaker!" Li'l Abner visits the corrupt Squeezeblood comic strip syndicate in a classic Sunday continuity from October 12, 1947.Ĭhicago Tribune New York News Syndicate (1964–1977)
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