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Title: Al Capp
Subtitle: A Life to the Contrary
Author: Michael Schumacher, Denis Kitchen
Narrator: Mike Ortego
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-31-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
More than 30 years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached 90 million readers. The strip ran for 43 years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as "hogwash" and "double-whammy." Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain. Though Li'l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a 20 year feud that ended in Fisher's suicide.
Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country. With unprecedented access to Capp's archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have produced a probing biography. Capp's story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure - told here with authority and heart.
Members Reviews:
Very interesting. Needs to be a movie.
What us the connection between artistic genius and malignant narcissism? We may never know, but it makes for fora fascinating bio of cartoonist AL Capp.
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Title: Al Capp
Subtitle: A Life to the Contrary
Author: Michael Schumacher, Denis Kitchen
Narrator: Mike Ortego
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-31-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
More than 30 years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached 90 million readers. The strip ran for 43 years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as "hogwash" and "double-whammy." Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain. Though Li'l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a 20 year feud that ended in Fisher's suicide.
Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country. With unprecedented access to Capp's archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have produced a probing biography. Capp's story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure - told here with authority and heart.
Members Reviews:
Very interesting. Needs to be a movie.
What us the connection between artistic genius and malignant narcissism? We may never know, but it makes for fora fascinating bio of cartoonist AL Capp.