Read Online Li'l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Vol 6 19451946 Al Capp 9781613778197 Books

Product details Series Li'l Abner (Book 6) Hardcover 272 pages Publisher IDW Publishing (December 24, 2013) Language English ISBN-10 9781613778197 ISBN-13 978-1613778197 ASIN 1613778198

Li'l Abner The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays Vol 6 19451946 Al Capp 9781613778197 Books Reviews

• Who can imagine where the idea came from, but come it did in the spring of 1946 Al Capp gave to the world Lena the Hyena the certifiable ugliest girl in creation or imagination , and ohh the fun he had with her.
  The Lil Abner comic strip was already one of the most famous and highly read comic strip back in the days before television when most people got their news from news papers and comic strips were one of the great forms of entertainment. But after the war it hit new highs in creativity, maybe it became more interesting because the world itself became more interesting, the art world in particularly found a new creative spirit in the post war years, there was a new way of looking at things, new painters, new writers, all that death and dying led to a new gestalt, a inner thinking, turned upside down, from Jackson Pollock to tennesee williams to Arthur miller and Marlon Brando it was a new time-a great time for the arts, and in a way Al Capp joined in with all that energy and from 1946 on his strip hit new stride in creativity as well as popularity.
  Lena the Hyena is a perfect example, not the idea of the ugliest women in the world, but what Capp did with the idea, a master of suspense and anticipation-he drew out the drama -to the umpteenth possibility-what could the most hideous women in the world look like-a women so horrid the sight of her could make a and mind snap like a over stretched rubber band-oh Capp you rascal-finally after weeks of sweet anticipation Abner is in the room with her, we are about to see Lena, the mystery about to be revealed, every red blooded human being who purchased a newspaper that day most have turned to the page the lil abler comic strip was on-first , anxious to see Lena with , when every eye turned to the lil abler strip on that faithful day- Capp stuck a stamp in front of her face-dear reader this newspaper considers this sketch too disturbing===or something like that.
  And Capp being Capp he milked Lena for all she was worth-starting a contest-who could draw Lena-won by Basil Wolveton, the perfect example-wolverton-of a man born with a skill-(drawing hideous people-)that would have been of no use at any given time in world history UNTIL THEN-coming along at the right time.
  And of course Lena found her way into the sadie Hawkins day race.
  This set of stories is a clear transition from Abner from a bawdy, fists a flying low brow humor into a more sophisticated type of strip, we still get the Abner/Daisy Mae love story and all the frequent near marriages of the two to each other or others, but there is a new more creative edge to the strip-that would usher in the best years of Abner-1948-1964, just as America itself was moving out of the deprivation of the depression and War-into a future of private homes and suburbs and air conditioning and television-and Capp was there to chronicle it and parody it-and add to the new found zest for life that was sweeping the nation, america was changing and would continue to change-right up to the point all hell broke loose in the sixties-and Capp was there for it all.- AND WE ARE ETERNALLY GREATFUL.
• I like Al Capp's Li'l Abner series plan to obtain all.
• smooth transaction. splendid
• The Library Of American Comics is to be congratulated for producing such a wonderful series of hardcover volumes, featuring the beautifully drawn daily adventures of Li'l Abner and his fellow citizens of Dogpatch. Something as fleeting as a newspaper comic strip, even one as brilliant as this, can so easily be forgotten, its humor and creativity completely unknown to future generations. Preserving Al Capp's extraordinarily imaginative contributions to this genuine American art form in a permanent way such as this ensures that it will not be the fate of Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy, Pappy and all the rest. The color of the original Sunday funnies could often be hit and miss due to the technology available at the time.. The flawless full page reproductions here are quite simply magnificent. Unreservedly recommended.
• Great book, great deal!
• I grew up reading and laughing at Al Capp's strip. Kitchen Sink publications put out a series of books but stopped short of covering the entire series, the last was #27 (1961). This series has a good start and I hope it will continue. These books are well made and well worth collecting. This one is no exception.
• go on for the next volume
• i love reading about the wolf gal. the book is perfect and tells it all. that artist was a talented man. i loved all his work.