Remember the Shmoo? It started one of the biggest assortment of collectibles in the 20th century. The animal was first seen in a L'il Abner comic strip in August 1946, and it became a sensation. Al ...

The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo, by Al Capp, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison (Overlook, 160 pages, $22.95). Al Capp’s Lil’ Abner — published from 1934 till 1977— was one of a tiny ...

A new biography of the “Li’l Abner” creator looks at the groundbreaking cartoon and the man behind it. By Alex Ben Block Al Capp is a nearly forgotten footnote in American history today but a new book ...

REMEMBER shmoos? Shmoos were the plump, white, bewhiskered creatures who climbed out of a crater near Dogpatch some fifteen years ago and began to reproduce themselves, with amiable proliferation, in ...

The old Al Capp comic strip, "Li'l Abner," featured an obliging creature called the "Shmoo." The Shmoo existed to be exploited and didn't mind it in the least. In fact, the Shmoo loved being abused.

So my dad tells me he ended up in a conversation with a buddy of his about obscure cartoon characters/creatures. At some point he brings up the Shmoo, which down the line a bit brings them to the ...

Previously published as two separate works: The life and times of the shmoo. 1948; and, The return of the shmoo. 1959. Based on the author's comic strip: Li'l Abner.

You are about to enter Dogpatch, an average stone-age community, It nestles in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills . . . On this low prefatory note, Comic-Stripper Al Capp ...

Al Capp didn't often play well with others, and his public career ended in disgrace. But many people owe the "Li'l Abner" cartoonist some thanks, starting with every high school boy asked to a Sadie ...

Except for Chic Young’s Blondie and Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday ...

The mascots for the 2012 London Olympic Games have been revealed and they look amazingly like Al Capp’s little white whiskered guy The Shmoo. Olympic mascot Wenlock and his Paralympic mascot friend ...