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“you are a vicious …” Letter, Capp to Harvey Curtis, undated, ca. 1977.
“It is extremely …” Letter, Bill Gordon to Al Hochberg, August 8, 1977.
“Frankly, I am a little …” ibid.
“I talked with …” Gail Jennes, “Falling Popularity, Bad Health and a Family Tragedy Persuade Al Capp to Erase ‘Li’l Abner,’ ” People, October 24, 1977.
“I grew more …” Daniel Q. Haney, “Li’l Abner Retires, Takes All Dogpatch with Him,” Milwaukee Journal, November 13, 1977.
“If you have …” n. a., “Mr. Dogpatch,” Time, November 19, 1979.
“He’s like a Dickens …” Israel Shenker, “Al Capp, Harbinger of the Age of Irreverence, Gives Up Cartoon but Not Irascibility,” New York Times, November 11, 1977.
“He’s created …” ibid.
“I keep thinking …” n.a., “Dogpatch Is Ready for Freddie,” Time, October 17, 1977.
“Regrets? …” John Halbrooks, “Al Capp: Curmudgeon Emeritus,” Ambassador, June 1978.
“quite bewildered”: Letter, Art Buchwald to Capp, September 21, 1978.
“For the last …” Letter, Capp to Art Buchwald, undated, ca. early 1978.
“father of us all”: Letter, Capp to Elliott Caplin, undated, ca. 1979.
“I can’t take …” Letter, Capp to Jerome “Bence” Capp, undated, ca. 1973.
“an American institution”: n.a., “Sad Day in Dogpatch: Al Capp Dies,” Boston Globe, November 6, 1979.
“the Mark Twain …” n.a., “Mr. Dogpatch,” Time, November 19, 1979.
“The things …” n.a., “Al Capp, R.I.P.,” Saturday Review, November 23, 1979.
“Li’l Abner …” John Updike, foreword to Al Capp’s posthumously published collection of memoirs, My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg (Santa Barbara, CA: John Daniel, 1991), p. 9.
“In telling the story …” Interview with Rita Castillo. All other citations in this passage are from this source.
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Eisner, Will. Will Eisner’s Shop Talk. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 2001.
Gray, Harold. Arf! The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935–1945. Introduction by Al Capp. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970.
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White, David Manning. From Dogpatch to Slobbovia: The Gasp!! World of L’il Abner, as Seen by David Manning White, with Certain Illuminating Remarks by Al Capp. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
Magazine and Newspaper Articles
n.a. “Al Capp a Hit as WEA Lecturer,” Milwaukee Journal, November 8, 1969.
_____. “Al Capp, Critic,” Newsweek, April 1, 1963.
_____.“Al Capp Denies Coed’s Sex Claim,” New York Times, May 8, 1971.
_____. “Al Capp Is Accused of Morals Offense,” New York Times, May 8, 1971.
_____. “Al Capp Is Charged with Morals Law Violations,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 1971.
_____. “Al Capp May Race Kennedy,” Milwaukee Journal, May 27, 1970.
_____. “Al Capp Meets Some Dogpatchers,” American Youth, January/February 1960.
_____. “Al Capp Put in Hospital for Rest,” Milwaukee Journal, May 2, 1971.
_____. “Al Capp Reprimands Harvard,” Boston Globe, June 25, 1969.
_____. “Al Capp, R.I.P.,” Saturday Review, November 23, 1979.
_____. “Al Capp Says Comics Are Today’s Fine Art,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 17, 1969.
_____. “Al Capp’s Wondrous Li’l Abner,” Satellite, August 1957.
_____. “Al Capp Yields to ‘Mr. Peanuts,’ ” Milwaukee Journal, October 18, 1968.
_____. “Amateur Boxer to Play Li’l Abner in the Movies,” Boston Globe, September 9, 1940.
_____. “Apology for Margaret,” Time, January 11, 1943.
_____. “Are You a Citizen of Dogpatch?” Argosy, November 1948.
_____. “Bane of the Bassinet,” Time, March 15, 1948.
_____. “Btfsplk Does It,” Time, October 18, 1948.
_____. “Capp Answers Criticism of Exploitation,” Editor & Publisher, August 27, 1949.
_____. “Capp Attacks Madison Window Smashers,” Milwaukee Journal, February 14, 1970.
_____. “Capp Freed on Bond in Morals Case,” Milwaukee Journal, October 13, 1971.
_____. “Capp-italist Revolution,” Life, December 20, 1948.
_____. “Capp Says ‘McCommunism’ Now Holding Sway in Senate,” Durham Sun, May 8, 1954.
_____. “Capp’s Cuts,” Time, April 11, 1969.
_____. “Capp’s Funny Spelling Lands in Textbooks,” Editor & Publisher, July 13, 1963.
_____. “Cappsulizing a Cartoonist’s Views,” San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 1969.
_____. “Capp Tells Police They Get Hard Time on Hard Pay,” Cleveland Press, October 5, 1966.
_____. “Capp to Answer Morals Charge,” New York Post, July 21, 1971.
_____. “Capp to Put a Cap on ‘Li’l Abner’ Strip,” Milwaukee Journal, October 4, 1977.
_____. “Capp v. Fisher,” Time, February 14, 1955.
_____. “Cartoonist Ham Fisher Found Dead,” New York Daily News, December 28, 1955.
_____. “Cartoonist Is Liable in Amount of $75,000,000,” Amesbury Daily, January 11, 1943.
_____. “City Club to Hear Li’l Abner Creator,” Cleveland Press, November 24, 1955.
_____. “Defending Fosdick,” Arkansas Gazette, December 11, 1965.
_____. “Did Sex Ruin the Darling of Dogpatch?” Picture Digest, June 1955.
_____. “Die Monstersinger,” Time, November 6, 1950.
_____. “Dogpatch Is Ready for Freddie,” Time, October 17, 1977.
_____. “Fifteen Minutes with Al Capp,” Pageant, September 1951.
_____. “For the Art Crowd, a Choice of Picasso or Dogpatch,” People, May 5, 1975.
_____. “For Your Information,” Newsweek, September 19, 1949.
_____. “Fosdick Bad for the Law, Chief Claims,” Arkansas Gazette, December 10, 1965.
_____. “Harvest Shmoon,” Time, September 13, 1948.
_____. “Inhuman Man,” Time, February 6, 1950.
_____. “Is Long Sam America’s Ideal Woman?” People Today, February 22, 1956.
_____. “Is Nothing Sacred?” Big Ten, October 1967.
_____. “Joan Baez Protests Comic Strip ‘Joanie,’ ” Milwaukee Journal, January 11, 1967.
_____. “ ‘Joanie’ Draws a Protest,” St. Petersburg Times, January 11, 1967.
_____. “Joe Palooka vs. Li’l Abner,” Tops, May 1954.
_____. “Kigmy Sweet,” Newsweek, October 3, 1949.
_____. “Lazonga to Shmoo,” Newsweek, July 12, 1948.
_____. “Leviticus vs. Yokums,” Newsweek, November 29, 1948.
_____. “Li’l Abner,” Variety, December 31, 1959.
_____. “Li’l Abner—Broadway,” Life, January 14, 1957.
_____. “Li’l Abner Creator Sues for 14 Million,” New York Times, July 12, 1947.
_____. “Li’l Abner Goes to Town,” Saturday Review, February 29, 1964.
_____. “Li’l Abner’s Mad Capp,” Newsweek, November 24, 1947.
_____. “Li’l Abner to Have Southland Adventure; Cartoonist Capp Here to Plan for Trip,” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1940.
_____. “Many Protest to Syndicate on Shmoo Tieup,” Editor & Publisher, September 3, 1949.
_____. “Mellowed Kickapoo,” Newsweek, February 22, 1965.
_____. “The Metamorphosis of Al Capp,” Worcester Telegram, July 22, 1970.
_____. “The Miracle of Dogpatch,” Time, December 27, 1948.
_____. “Missionary to the Campus,” Newsweek, June 22, 1970.
_____. “Mr. Capp Finds SDS Full of Yokum,” Washington Daily News, June 17, 1969.
_____. “Mr. Dogpatch,” Time, November 19, 1979.
_____. “New Picture,” Time, December 21, 1959.
_____. “Nixon Meddled in Case of Al Capp,” Milwaukee Journal, December 8, 1992.
_____. “Pappy Yokum Caught Reading,” Editor & Publisher, August 10, 1963.
_____. “Parashmoopers Take Off to Be Dropped on Berlin,” Cleveland Press, October 13, 1948.
_____. “Rap for Capp,” Time, September 9, 1957.
_____. “The Roaring Presses,” Time, May 10, 1948.
_____. “Sacking of the Shmoo,” Time, May 23, 1949.
_____. “Sad Day in Dogpatch: Al Capp Dies,” Boston Globe, November 6, 1979.
_____. “Sen. McCarthy Called ‘Bum’ by Al Capp,” Haverhill Gazette, April 17, 1953.
_____. “Shmoos Make Noos,” Newsweek, October 11, 1948.
_____. “The Shmoo’s Return,” New Yorker, October 26, 1963.
_____. “The (Sob!) Ugliest,” Time, October 28, 1946.
_____. “Speaking of Pictures … Al Capp Puts the Likenesses of Famous People in His ‘Li’l Abner,’ ” Life, June 12, 1944.
_____. “Speaking of Pictures … 500,000 People Draw Lena the Hyena,” Life, October 22, 1946.
_____. “Strip Tease,” Newsweek, July 17, 1944.
_____. “Stuff of Dreams,” Time, December 1, 1947.
_____. “Superwoman’s Dive,” Newsweek, July 12, 1943.
_____. “Taming of the Shmoo,” Newsweek, September 5, 1949.
_____. “ ‘Terribly Excited’ Al Capp on Hand as Dogpatch Becomes a Real Place,” Arkansas Gazette, May 19, 1968.
_____. “Trials of Li’l Abner: He’s So Real That Food Gifts Pour in for Gaunt Yokums,” Newsweek, February 26, 1940.
_____. “U. N. Take Note,” Quick, October 10, 1949.
_____. “The Unthinkable,” Time, March 31, 1952.
_____. “The U.S. Becomes Shmoo-Struck,” Life, September 20, 1948.
_____. “What Changes Will the Sixties Bring?” Esquire, January 1960.
_____. “Which One Is the Phoanie?” Time, January 20, 1967.
_____. “Yokum Hokum,” People Today, February 1957.
Abel, Bob. “Al Capp vs. Just About Everybody!” Cavalier, July 1967.
_____. “The Philosopher from Dogpatch,” Pageant, May 1964.
Alden, John. “Li’l Abner, World’s Leading Comic; Drawn By 28-Year-Old Cartoonist in Cambridge,” Boston Globe, August 30, 1938.
Armstrong, Walter. “What Really Made Ham Fisher Decide to Die?” Uncensored, May 1956.
Atwood, Margaret. “The Comics Generation,” Playboy, December 2008.
Becattini, Alberto. “The Good Girl Art of Bob Lubbers,” Comic Book Marketplace, April 2002.
Brady, Frank. “How Li’l Abner Got His Start,” Quill, October 1937.
Brown, Edward D. “ ‘Li’l Abner’ Artist Learned How at Boston Art Museum School,” Boston Globe, March 3, 1935.
Buchwald, Art. “Capp’s Spoiled Girls Become Model Wives,” Boston Globe, February 26, 1960.
_____. “Don’t Be a Pal to Your Son,” American Mercury, August 1959.
Buckley, William F., Jr. “Al Capp at Bay,” New York Post, October 1, 1970.
_____. “The Campus Destroyers,” Firing Line Newsletter, April 1, 1969.
Caniff, Milton. “No Free Trips to DAMA,” Milton Caniff’s Steve Canyon Magazine, September 1984. Capp, Al. “A Blasting Capp,” Ergo, May 28, 1969.
_____. “Advice to Princeton Alumni,” National Review, September 22, 1970.
_____. “Al Capp by Li’l Abner,” Life, June 24, 1946.
_____. “Al Capp Here: Anarchy, Anyone?” New York Daily News, September 27. 1970.
_____. “Al Capp Here: The Concerned Coed,” New York Daily News, September 20, 1970.
_____. “Al Capp Here: Share the Wealth!” New York Daily News, May 10, 1970.
_____. “Ál Capp Here: Willy’s World,” New York Daily News, April 26, 1970.
_____. “Al Capp’s America,” Pageant, March 1953.
_____. “Back to the Democrats’ Drawing Board,” Penthouse, March 1973.
_____. “Can TV Be Saved?” Esquire, December 1963.
_____. “The Care and Feeding of Sacred Cows,” Saturday Evening Post, September/October 1973.
_____. “The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin,” Atlantic Monthly, February 1950.
_____. “The Day Dream,” Show, December 1962.
_____. “Dear Mammy,” Argosy, January 19
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_____. “Gulp!” New York Review of Books, March 19, 1964.
_____. “I Don’t Like Shmoos,” Cosmopolitan, June 1949.
_____. “I Remember Monster,” Atlantic Monthly, April 1950.
_____. “I Remember Rube, the Chaplin of the Funny Pages,” Smithsonian, November 1970.
_____. “ ‘It’s Hideously True’: The Creator of Li’l Abner Tells Why His Hero Is (Sob!) Wed,” Life, March 31, 1952.
_____. “Letter to the Globe from Al Capp,” Boston Globe, June 25, 1969.
_____. “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Penthouse, January 1973.
_____. “Li’l Abner’s Gals,” Playboy, May 1957.
_____. “The Man Who Came Back,” New York Herald Tribune, July 30, 1951.
_____. “Memories of Miss Mandelbaum,” Atlantic Monthly, May 1951.
_____. “Mother and Her Secret,” Reader’s Digest, May 1964.
_____. “My Life as an Immortal Myth,” Life, April 30, 1965.
_____. “My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg,” Life, May 23, 1960.
_____. “The Other Capp,” Saturday Evening Post, March/April 1973.
_____. “O, Whither Hast Thou Led Me, Egypt? The Roman Spring of Al Capp,” Show, June 1962.
_____. “The Person Who Changed My Life,” Seventeen, April 1965.
_____. “The Real Powers in America,” Real, December 1952.
_____. “The Terrifying Adventures of Fearless Fosdick,” Pageant, May 1952.
_____. “There Is a Real Shmoo,” New Republic, March 21, 1949.
_____. “The Thinking Capp,” This Week, February 23, 1969.
_____. “They Don’t Make Millionaires Anymore the Way They Did in Betty Grable’s Time,” Saturday Evening Post, December 1974.