Creating the comic strip “Li’l Abner”, and endowing American popular culture with the mythical hillbilly realm of Dogpatch, the American cartoonist, Al Capp, is celebrated as a remarkable satirist and the creator of “Li'l Abner”, one of the most popular comic strips of all time.

Famous for launching iconic American characters, Capp was born Alfred Gerald Caplin on September 28, 1909, in New Haven, Connecticut.