· Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary. Denis Kitchen, whose Kitchen Sink Press published compilations of Al Capp’s Li’l Abner dailies from through in 27 volumes (), had developed a rapport with Capp’s family, widow and children, that gave him extraordinary access to Capp’s papers—letters, documents (including two unpublished autobiographies) and memorabilia that . · With his co-biographer, Michael Schumacher, [Denis] Kitchen has ably sketched the life of [Al Capp], a double-whammy entertainer—artist and writer—whose year masterpiece holds a secure place among the few American comic strips that deserve to be called art The co-authors are to be commended for not flinching from the grimness of Capp's ISBN Al Capp: a life to the contrary Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Capp, Al, , Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography Publisher New York: Bloomsbury Kitchen, Denis, Boxid IA Camera Sony Alpha-A (Control) Collection_setUser Interaction Count:
Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary. By Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen. New York: Bloomsbury USA, pp. Reviewed by Daniel F. Yezbick Midway through Schumacher and Kitchen's firm, focused portrait of Al Capp, we find the truculent satirist wrestling with a pesky set of embroilments. In a desperate letter to his. Though Li'l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg-leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a twenty-year feud that ended in Fisher's suicide. The cartoonist Al Capp, John Steinbeck wrote in , "may very possibly be the best writer in the world today." As Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen document in "Al Capp: A Life to the.
Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary: Authors: Michael Schumacher, Denis Kitchen: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN: , Length: pages. ’Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary’ by Denis Kitchen and Michael Schumacher (Bloomsbury) Amid all the satire and pulchritude and inventiveness, Capp was second to none in stringing the reader along. A Life to the Contrary skims the intellectual, satirical brilliance of Capp's work, his social world, and his family life. The book's account of the Saroyan affair, for instance, ignores who Carol Saroyan was (the alleged out-of-wedlock daughter of actor Leslie Howard, and the future Mrs. Walter Matthau), her own thoughts on her liaison with Capp, and her status as one of the most ardently pursued women of the literary-entertainment world.
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