Peter Palmer brought the legendary comic strip character Li’l Abner to life, first as the lead in a successful Broadway musical and later in the movie based on the stage play. Palmer died Sept. 21, ...

Despite their striking resemblance, Li’l Abner, the midcentury comic strip hero, was everything his creator Al Capp was not: an unlettered, unambitious, all-American hillbilly who was strapping ...

Peter Palmer, the actor best known for bringing the comic “Li’l Abner” to life on both stage and screen, died on Tuesday — a day after he turned 90. “It’s with a sad heart that I announce the passing ...

Al Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li’l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob ...

19 x 21.75 in. (48.3 x 55.2 cm.) ...

IDW has announced The Complete Li'l Abner through its Library of American Comics imprint. The series of graphic novels will collect the complete body of Al Capp's classic comedy strips including ...

48.26 x 66.68 in. (122.6 x 169.4 cm.) ...

There's the story of how Robert G. Schneider earned a Silver Star for valor in World War II by stringing radio cable while under German fire and how the comic strip "Li'l Abner" saved his life when he ...

Fans of the Li’l Abner comic strip last week recognized the unmistakable face of Frank Sinatra. He promised Daisy Mae Scragg that he would sing her song: Li’l Abner, Don’t Marry That Girl. Objective: ...

“Good is better than evil becuz it’s nicer!” Mammy Yokum admonished Li’l Abner, that paragon of sweet-natured naivete. Mammy (born Pansy Hanks) was, after all, a font of wisdom not to be ignored.

I’ve owned my glass picturing Al Capp’s cartoon character Pappy Yokum for at least 30 years. I have not been able to find any information about it. It looks like a jelly glass. What can you tell me ...