(MOBI) Al Capp ~ 9781608196234

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Al Capp
A Life to the Contrary
by Denis Kitchen, Michael Schumacher

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• ISBN: 9781608196234 (1608196232)
• Format: hardcover, 320 pages
• Language: english
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Author: Denis Kitchen, Michael Schumacher
• Genres: comics, history
• Release date: February 26, 2013
• Awards: Harvey Awards Nominee for Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation (2014), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book (2014)

About The Book

More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp’s death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li’l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as “hogwash” and “double-whammy.” Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain.

Though Li’l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg-leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a twenty-year feud that ended in Fisher’s suicide. Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country.

With unprecedented access to Capp’s archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have written a probing biography. Capp’s story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure-told here with authority and heart.

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