A new biography of the “Li’l Abner” creator looks at the groundbreaking cartoon and the man behind it. By Alex Ben Block Al Capp is a nearly forgotten footnote in American history today but a new book ...

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 ...

The great American diplomat and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson may have well been talking about Li’l Abner creator Al Capp when he said, “Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's hard to overstate how big a deal in pop culture 'Li'l Abner' was in its day. At its peak, the comic strip by Al Capp was published in more than 900 newspapers in North America, with more than 70 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the 1960s, two of the greatest American comic strips lost their way. Chester Gould’s “Dick Tracy” bogged down in, of all places, the moon, which supported ...

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 ...