> > Does anybody remember a cartoonist named Al Capp?
> > Howard
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> The only thing I know about Al Capp comes from reading Isaac Asimov's auto-biography (the third one). He said he and Al were friends for a long time, then Al suddenly became racist or something and started using the Lil Abner strip to bash blacks or something like that. Struck me as funny, because the few times I've actually read a Lil Abner strip, it didn't seem racist to me. Guess I just saw ones from the wrong era.
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> -- Dave

This is really strange, Dave. I just replied to Sam's post about his source for the redneck dialect and I mentioned how the L'il Abner character was not prejudiced. I read the comic strip from about 1940 until it ended, and I don't recall anything racist in it. However, that was a time when racism was almost acceptable, and as a dumb kid, I might not have caught it. I was about 16 before I realized that racism was fundamentally wrong.(But that's another story.)

I also was an avid reader of Asimov. His non-fiction was almost a good as his sci fi.
Howard