Al Capp
Al Capp
Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing anddrawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slatsand Long Sam. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Awardfor his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning." Comic strips dealt with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth28 September 1909
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.
Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.