Main characters
Li'l Abner Yokum: Abner's character was 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and perpetually 19 years old. He was portrayed as a naive, simpleminded, gullible and sweet-natured hillbilly. … 查看更多內容

Al Capp, a native northeasterner, wrote all the final dialogue in Li'l Abner using his approximation of a mock-southern dialect (including phonetic sounds, eye dialect (nonstandard … 查看更多內容

Al Capp was a master of the arts of marketing and promotion. Publicity campaigns were devised to boost circulation and … 查看更多內容

Although ostensibly set in the Kentucky mountains, situations often took the characters to different destinations — including New York City, Washington, D.C., … 查看更多內容

Li'l Abner featured a whole menagerie of allegorical animals over the years — each one was designed to satirically showcase another disturbing aspect of human nature. They included: 查看更多內容

Li'l Abner had several toppers on the Sunday page, including
• Washable Jones (February 24 – June 9, 1935) 查看更多內容

Li'l Abner was a comic strip with fire in its belly and a brain in its head.— John Updike, from My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg … 查看更多內容