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Al Capp

b: New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Sep 28, 1909

d: South Hampton, New Hampshire, USA, Nov 5, 1979

Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award (posthumously) for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning."

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Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.