Goldie Hawn has detailed her “casting couch” moment with famed cartoonist Al Capp, in which he allegedly came into the room “disrobed” and asked for a kiss. “I was 19. I went up for the ‘meet,’ and I ...

Like William Wordsworth and others before him, Al Capp began life as a crusading liberal and ended it growing more conservative with each passing breath. For four decades, Capp gave the world Lil' ...

The Li'l Abner cartoonist's public image was tarnished by scandal, and a new book about him reminds readers why the talented Capp had so much to lose in the first place. The story of Li'l Abner ...

As a teenager, Ron Gagnon ran with a crowd that included the children of the cartoonist Al Capp. Sometimes when he’d visit the family’s ...

Before there was Pop Art there was popular art, and the most popular art was the comic strip, and the most popular of the comic-strip artists was Al Capp. Last year marked his centenary, a time when ...

His Sunday comic strip, “Lil' Abner”, was syndicated to hundreds of newspapers. Its principal character was the subject of a musical. Another Capp character, Fearless Fosdick – a parody of Dick Tracy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Goldie Hawn's early career was marked by a terrifying encounter with one of America's most prominent cartoonists. Hawn appeared on ...

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The cartoonist Al Capp, John Steinbeck wrote in 1952, “may very possibly be the best writer in the world today.” As Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen document in “Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary,” ...

The difficulties that Massachusetts Republicans face in recruiting Senate candidates are nothing new. In 1970 they needed someone to challenge the young Senator Edward Kennedy, and they went so far as ...

Why are students willing to pay a millionaire cartoonist $3,000 a shot to insult them from a lecture platform? “I think it’s a love-hate relationship,” says Al Capp, the raspy-voiced creator of Li’I ...

Life magazine’s cover story on March 31, 1952, featured the marriage of Daisy May Scraggs—after 17 years of wildly frustrated pursuit—to Abner Yokum. Not bad publicity for two cartoon characters. It ...