By Paul Carrier
For more than four decades, beginning in 1934, Al Capp was one of the most successful comic-strip artists in America as the creator of Li’l Abner; at its peak, the cartoon ran in close to 1,000 newspapers. Yet Capp, his talent and popularity notwithstanding, was a troubled man.
Irascible, judgmental and sometimes mean-spirited, he was a highly visible and vocal satirist who cheated on his wife, was accused of sexually assaulting young women and grew intolerant of leftist politics once he abandoned his own liberal views.
Published in 2013, Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary is the first major biography of the legendary cartoonist who transported generations of eager readers to Li'l Abner's hometown of Dogpatch, a fictional backwater somewhere in the hillbilly country of rural Kentucky.
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