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...ABNER (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Al Capp's "Dogpatch" moves to TV, with Sammy Jackson playing the title role, Judy Canova as the recalcitrant "Mammy" Yokum, Jerry Lester her peace-lovin' "Pappy," and Jeannine Riley as Daisy Mae. "sneak preview...
Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...
...ABOut. He was a skOOL DRop-oUT." So begins the latest federal literature out of Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity-a comic book called Li'l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space. Cartoonist Al Capp, 55, plucks Li'l Abner out of Dogpatch, the world's most bizarre poverty pocket, installs him as a "brilliant young technician with a big job, and even bigger feet, who befriends Danny Driftwood, a nice but undesirable young man," and persuades him to ditch his gal Sloppy-Belle and get into the Job Corps. Next scene...
TIME cover stories have been concerned with the comic-strip world twice before; in 1947, we presented Milton Caniff, who was then about to launch Steve Canyon, and in 1950 we ventured into Dogpatch with Al Capp. Since those days, the comics have gone through a slump as well as a renaissance. For some time now, the editors have been considering the comics' new style. More and more the strips are offering political satire, psychology, and comments of varying subtlety on the rages and outrages of everyday life...
...through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough to stumble upon the idyllic world of Dogpatch. The grandmummy of soap-opera strips, Mary Worth, who evolved from a seedy apple seller to today's genteel gadabout, has spawned innumerable imitators: Brenda Starr (girl reporter), Dondi (boy orphan), On Stage (actress), Apartment 3-G (career girls). Along with soap, Rex Morgan, M.D. dispenses medical advice...