Except for Chic Young’s Blondie and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday ...
Previously published as two separate works: The life and times of the shmoo. 1948; and, The return of the shmoo. 1959. Based on the author's comic strip: Li'l Abner.
Despite their striking resemblance, Li’l Abner, the midcentury comic strip hero, was everything his creator Al Capp was not: an unlettered, unambitious, all-American hillbilly who was strapping ...