L’il Abner and Political Correctness

digresssmlOriginally published June 25, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1336

When I was nine or ten years old, something like that, my dad—who was a reporter at the time—did a lot of reviews of local theater. Road companies and such like came through places in North Jersey, and if there was something that my father thought would be appropriate for me (and presumably if my mother wasn’t interested) then he’d bring me along.

Knowing how much I was into comics, it seemed a natural fit as far as my dad was concerned when the musical Li’l Abner rolled into town.