Delve Into The World Of Lil Abner Assembled By Al Capp Accessible As Paperbound

reproduction of these LIL ABNER comic panels are so small that the stories are very difficult to read, and frankly, not worth the effort.
The most interesting thing in this book, therefore, is the strange introduction by John Steinbeck in which the Noble Prize winning author attempts to convince readers that “Capp is probably the greatest contemporary writer and it is my suggestion that if the Nobel prize committee is at all alert, they should seriously consider him.
” He seems to mean this,

Al Capp was a superior cartoonist when the strip was not ghosted, as it often was, and when he was on and not too full of himself as he often was, a superior satirist.
Did he produce Nobel consideration work Youll never know by reading this feeble attempt to reproduce his strips in this book.
This is hilarious stuff. I bet the original Mad Magazine guys loved it too, it resembles early Mad style, Wait till you meet Stupifyin' Jones, Includes forwards by John Steinbeck and Charles Chaplin, Already reading the daily and Sunday at end of Capp's career, I read my Uncle Billy's copy of this anthology of the early, more masterful L'il Abner, and first met the Schmoo! Collection of legendary cartoonist Al Capp's Li'l Abner strips, with

an introduction by John Steinbeck and a forward by Charles Chaplin.
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