The great American diplomat and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson may have well been talking about Li’l Abner creator Al Capp when he said, “Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger ...

Goldie Hawn has detailed her “casting couch” moment with famed cartoonist Al Capp, in which he allegedly came into the room “disrobed” and asked for a kiss. “I was 19. I went up for the ‘meet,’ and I ...

Like William Wordsworth and others before him, Al Capp began life as a crusading liberal and ended it growing more conservative with each passing breath. For four decades, Capp gave the world Lil' ...

Goldie Hawn has shared a story from her early years in the industry, accusing famed cartoonist Al Capp of sexually harassing her during an audition at the age of 19. “I had a script and I was reading ...

Before there was Pop Art there was popular art, and the most popular art was the comic strip, and the most popular of the comic-strip artists was Al Capp. Last year marked his centenary, a time when ...

His Sunday comic strip, “Lil' Abner”, was syndicated to hundreds of newspapers. Its principal character was the subject of a musical. Another Capp character, Fearless Fosdick – a parody of Dick Tracy ...

For decades, Al Capp was the most famous comic-strip artist in America, and Li’l Abner, with its dumb hillbillies, biting satirical humour, and ludicrously sexy women, was the most popular strip in ...

The difficulties that Massachusetts Republicans face in recruiting Senate candidates are nothing new. In 1970 they needed someone to challenge the young Senator Edward Kennedy, and they went so far as ...

Life magazine’s cover story on March 31, 1952, featured the marriage of Daisy May Scraggs—after 17 years of wildly frustrated pursuit—to Abner Yokum. Not bad publicity for two cartoon characters. It ...