Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, ...

Reader Terrence O’Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp’s comic strip, Li’l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O’Toole: ...

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 ...