By age 40, 86 percent of women and 81 percent of men have entered marriage. Overall, women tend to marry at a younger age than men. No one should confuse Bachelors’ Day with Sadie Hawkins Day. This was first mentioned in the 1937 comics of Al Capp’s...

Burroughs turns in a characteristically acid anecdote — acid in the sense of corrosive. Newspaper Comic Cartoonists: As far as I can tell, completely unrepresented. Other than that the ones that would have been most wanted, Walt Kelly and Al Capp, were...

Check her out at www.lil-abner.com, a website that honors Al Capp's beloved comic strip. If you click on "Sadie Hawkins Day" and "Read the Daily Strip," you'll find "the homeliest gal in all them hills" plotting her latest caper to bag a bachelor. For...

Thompson and Larry King of his day. If you’re wondering if Hawn might have been exaggerating her tale a bit, unfortunately, in his later years Capp became something of a horrible dirty old man. In 1968 he made indecent advances to four female students...

I was doing (tv series Rowan & Martin's) Laugh-In at the time, so I was pretty established... and I said, 'Well congratulations, I guess I didn't have to marry a Jewish dentist after all.'" Capp, real name Alfred Caplin, died in 1979, aged 70.

I was doing (TV series Rowan & Martin's) Laugh-In at the time, so I was pretty established... and I said, 'Well congratulations, I guess I didn't have to marry a Jewish dentist after all.'" Capp, real name Alfred Caplin, died in 1979, aged 70.