[SamKeck]

I'm old enough to recall seeing Capp guest on the Tonight Show and I recall him to be an interesting and engaging guest who, having a very serious limp, walked with the aid of a cane.

That was back during the 1960's and Capp had a female folk singer in his strip that he named "Joanie Phoney" (a takeoff on Joan Baez) who, when asked to donate $10,000 to an orphange, refused and instead replied that she would play a concert for them because that too was worth $10.000.

[PJ-Comix]

I'm old enough to recall seeing Capp guest on the Tonight Show and I recall him to be an interesting and engaging guest who, having a very serious limp, walked with the aid of a cane.

Ummm.... Capp limped because he lost his leg in a streetcar accident as a youth. BTW, he chronicled this incident in his comix. This is why a History Channel program on Capp would be so TERRIFIC---there are many cartoons that Capp drew about his own life. He even had a Sunday strip around 1950 portraying an evil cartoonist based directly on Ham Fisher who treats Li'l Abner like dirt.

[Alouette]

"Joanie Phoney" (a takeoff on Joan Baez)

But looked more like Barbra Streisand...