Previously, the introduction, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven of our story. VII. The Sordid End of Al Capp BUT CAPP WAS NOT FINISHED. In the fall of 1956, eight months after Fisher’s suicide, Al Capp took up the question that the Fisher episode had left hanging… Read more »
The tragic ending of Ham Fisher
In 1950, the Fisher-Capp feud boiled over, in the pages of Time and The Atlantic Monthly.
World War II begins, and the first shots in the Ham Fisher/Al Capp war are also fired.
The Capp/Fisher feud heats up.
The story continues with Al Capp and the birth of Li’l Abner.
Our story begins with Ham Fisher and the birth of Joe Palooka.
The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact.
A look at one of the early masters of the medium, an artist devoted to principle at a time when cartoonists weren’t yet noted for doing much more than making funny faces.
Milton Caniff always took sole credit, but who really inspired her?
Quincy’s energetic, juicy brush line and lively layouts showed that comic strip rendering could qualify as high art.
Bud Grace’s wicked cultural satire ends its thirty-year run.
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
On the face of it, the Andy Capp comic strip ought to have failed the moment it arrived on these shores in 1963.
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
A rare conversation with the longtime cartoon editor of Playboy.
A life of the master of the clear line.
