Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 4)
The Capp/Fisher feud heats up.
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.
Smith, like Jones, is a name so plentiful in English-speaking countries that it achieves virtual invisibility and thereby anonymity. And the only Al Smith who ever broke free of the amorphous mob of Smiths is the one that was a picturesque governor of New York: he attracted enough notice that he was able to run… Read more »
An encyclopedic look at the master of fantasy and romance.
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.