Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist, born in New Haven, Connecticut, on 28 September 1909 and died on 5 November 1979. He was best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and, with help from assistants, drawing until 1977. Within this atlas Al Capp is credited as the creator and writer of Li'l Abner. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Al Capp, which this entry cites as its source.
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Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909, November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977.
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Capp was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004.
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He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning".
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It featured a fictional clan of hillbillies living in the impoverished fictional mountain village of Dogpatch, USA. Written and illustrated by Al Capp (1909-1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934, through November 13, 1977.
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