A Crowded Life in Comics –






 Al Capp’s Own Crowded Life and Family 







 by Rick Marschall 


I knew Al Capp better through the conservative movement, in the
late 1960s and early ’70s, than through cartooning. Nevertheless this Crowded
Life I chronicle led me to interact in several ways and various times with him.




I also knew his brother Elliot Caplin, about whom not enough has
been written in comics histories.

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