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generalbetrayus

(1,329 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:42 PM Sep 22

Joan Baez takes it to Orange Julius Caesar

If you're as old as me, you might remember how Lil Abner cartoonist Al Capp called her Joanie Phony in the comic strip.

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Joan Baez takes it to Orange Julius Caesar (Original Post) generalbetrayus Sep 22 OP
Lil Abner being one of those moldy strips I read as a kid and couldn't understand why they were "funny" erronis Sep 22 #1
"attempted adultery?" That's a thing? Grins Sep 22 #2
Ivana Tru.... rubbersole Sep 22 #5
She's always some_of_us_are_sane Sep 22 #3
I never read his strip wolfie001 Sep 22 #4
I've always loved Joan Baez PatSeg Sep 22 #6
She just did an interview with Nicolle Wallace DinahMoeHum Sep 22 #7
Wonderful! some_of_us_are_sane Sep 22 #9
Kick dalton99a Sep 22 #8

erronis

(21,801 posts)
1. Lil Abner being one of those moldy strips I read as a kid and couldn't understand why they were "funny"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:34 PM
Sep 22

Reading more about Capp is revulsive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capp

Sexual harassment and assault claims

Two biographies, one of Grace Kelly and the other of Goldie Hawn, describe Capp as trying to force the younger women to have sex with him.[44][45]

While no firsthand allegation has ever surfaced regarding Kelly,[46] in her autobiography, Hawn stated that Capp sexually propositioned her on a casting couch and exposed himself to her when she was 19 years old. When she refused his advances, Capp became angry and told her that she was "never gonna make anything in your life" and that she should "go and marry a Jewish dentist. You'll never get anywhere in this business."[47][48]

In 1971, investigative journalist Jack Anderson wrote that Capp had exposed his genitals to four female students at the University of Alabama.[49]

In 1972, after an incident at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Capp was arrested. He pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted adultery, while charges of indecent exposure and sodomy were dropped. He was fined US$500 (equivalent to $3,759 in 2024).[50]

In 2019, Jean Kilbourne was inspired by the MeToo movement to publish in Hogan's Alley her own experience of being groped and sexually solicited by Al Capp while doing freelance writing and research work for him in contemplation of a permanent job in 1967.[51

wolfie001

(6,375 posts)
4. I never read his strip
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:07 PM
Sep 22

I'm a Boomer and, even though he's dead and buried, his reputation is tarnished for me. I've always loved Joan! Great American!

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,421 posts)
9. Wonderful!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:58 PM
Sep 22

Man........... his creepy SNAKE EYES are becoming MORE pronounced as he loses what infinitesimal bits of soul he as left.

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