Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner is an American comic strip created by Al Capp, syndicated from 1934 to 1977, following the hillbilly Yokum family and a broad cast of characters in the fictional Appalachian town of Dogpatch. Beneath its broad, exaggerated hillbilly humor the strip was sharply satirical, regularly lampooning American politics, celebrity culture and social trends of the day, and it introduced enough invented slang and characters into popular use that some, such as the Sadie Hawkins Day dance, passed into everyday American culture beyond the strip itself. It is regarded by comics historians as one of the most widely read and socially influential American comic strips of the mid twentieth century.