Playboy Interview: Al Capp
December, 1965
Playboy Interview: Al Cappa candid conversation with the caustic, iconoclastic creator of "li'l abner"In August 1934, a heroically built young lunkhead named Li'l Abner, wearing supersize clodhoppers and the beatific grin of an idiot, was born, fully grown, in a mythical hamlet named Dogpatch and promptly established himself as a national institution. He also established his creator, a brash, bumptious New Englander named Alfred Gerald Caplin, as one of the most successful cartoonists...