Charlie Chaplin comedy

No comic artist enjoys a more ardent following than AL CAPP has gained with his “Li’l Abner" and the other residents of that mythical area known as Dogpatch. Occasionally Capp erupts into a prose as branny as his visual technique, and his last book, The Life and Times of the Shmoo, sold into astronomical figures. Since 1934, when his drawings were first syndicated. Comedy has been his medium; with his skill and laughter, he has built up a cheering section of more than forty million, and in 1948 earned the annual Award of the Society of Cartoonists. This is the first of a series of articles by Mr. Capp which the Atlantic will publish in 1950.