Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Li'l Abner</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1941-11-08
name: label: graphic artist
content: Capp, Al
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing for the <i>Li’l Abner</i> newspaper strip shows the general frenzy associated with fast-approaching Sadie Hawkins Day.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Alfred Gerald Caplin or Al Capp (1909-1979) began drawing comics in his youth after a serious accident which required a leg amputation. He attended art schools and in the early 1930s was given the opportunity to introduce a new character, named Big Leviticus, to the newspaper strip <i>Joe Palooka.</i> Inspired by his work with Ham Fisher on the strip, Capp began developing his own strip, called <i>Li’l Abner,</i> a look at a fictitious, backward mountain culture. The strip debuted in 1934 and was shortly syndicated worldwide. Capp, like other comic artists, used his strip to comment on cultural shortcomings and prejudices.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Li’l Abner</i> (1934-1977) was a satirical comic strip about a hillbilly clan living in fictional Dogpatch, Arkansas. The title character was a large, simple, naïve, and good-hearted individual. The character Li'l Abner also spent the better part of two decades evading the affections of Daisy Mae Scraggs, whose family was the sworn enemy of his family, the Yokums. Eventually, Capp yielded to readers’ wishes and married Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae in 1952. The strip's storyline included the fabrication of Sadie Hawkins Day, the annual event which allowed women the opportunity to literally catch a husband.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.095
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.8 cm x 57.8 cm; 7 in x 22 3/4 in