About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 206. Chapters: Li'l Abner, The Phantom, Peanuts, Pogo (comic strip), Calvin and Hobbes, The Shadow, Dick Tracy, Garfield, Knights of the Dinner Table, Little Orphan Annie, Buck Rogers, Luann (comic strip), Charlie Chan, Doonesbury, Krazy Kat, Zits, Pearls Before Swine (comics), Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, Flash Gordon, Fearless Fosdick, Betty Boop, Little Lulu, Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics), Funky Winkerbean, Spirit (comics), Beetle Bailey, Dilbert, Spider-Man in other media, Fritz the Cat, Rip Kirby, Hagar the Horrible, B.C. (comic strip), Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Blondie (comic strip), Bloom County, List of Flash Gordon comic strips, Prince Valiant, Sherman's Lagoon. Excerpt: Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909-1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977. It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate. Comic strips dealt with northern urban experiences until 1934, when Capp his strip, the first one based in the South. Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years teaching the world about Dogpatch, reaching 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Inge says Capp, "had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South." Li'l Abner Yokum: The star of Capp's classic comic strip was hardly "little." Abner was 6' 3" in his stockinged feet (if he wore stockings), and perpetually 19 "y'ars" old. A naive, simple-minded and sweet-natured hillbilly boy, he lived in a ramshackle log cabin with his pint-sized parents. He inherited his strength from his irascible Mammy, and his brains from his less-than-brainy Pappy. Capp derived their family name "Yokum" as a portmanteau of yokel and hokum. 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. A priceless rube, Abner was so gullible that he could be tricked by a small child. The loutish Abner typically had no visible means of support, but sometimes earned his livelihood as a "crescent cutter" for the Little Wonder privy company, (later changed to "mattress tester" for the Stunned Ox mattress company.) Abner's main goal in life was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, the virtuous, voluptuous, barefoot Dogpatch damsel and scion of the Yokums' blood feud enemies - the Scraggs, her bloodthirsty, semi-evolved kinfolk. For 18 years, Abner slipped out of Daisy Mae's marital crosshairs
