Li'l Abner Dailies 1939

by Al Capp

Book Overview

Description from the back cover: On Monday, August 13, 1934, eight newspapers commenced printing an obscure comic strip by an equally obscure cartoonist about a family of poor hillbillies living in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878160574
• ISBN13: 9780878160570
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

The Genius Of Al Capp

Al Capp was on the verge of reaching his peak- a peak he would maintain for many, many years- in these great 1939 newspaper strips. The drawing style is getting bolder and funnier and Capp's visual and narrative satire is beginning to hit a stride that put him at the top of his medium and at the forefront of American popular culture. "Li'l Abner" is a great American work of art, and boy, is it funny stuff. This beautiful series of books is a Godsend from revered publisher Denis Kitchen, and reestablishes Capp's important place as a twentieth century artist and writer.My favorite sequence here has Abner posing as a college student ("Oh,Happy Collidge Days!!") as a couple of equally-disguised gangsters try to kill him. While being shoved off a cliff and into a river, tied to a boulder, Abner enthuses "This is mah first collidge hazin'!!" Buy all 27 volumes of this priceless series and take the phone off the hook for a few months.