The first appearance of Al Capp’s “Shmoo” was in the classic comic strip, “Li’l Abner”. As said by Life Magazine, the nation was instantly “Shmoo-struck,” and his “Shmoo” became a big hit. There are many stories, comics, and TV shows with and about the Shmoos, the story we’re focusing on is “The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo.” Their life in the book goes through love and hate. With only the desire to please the humans of Dogpatch, USA, they lay eggs, give milk, and if you look at them as though you wish to eat them, they drop dead from sheer happiness. Shmoos also multiply like rabbits; as long as you have two of different different genders, there will be more quickly. Having everything you need for nothing, however, broke the economy in Dogpatch, and
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Eventually, the citizens had exterminators come to get rid of the Shmoos. With a wish of no harm to them, Abner saves a “male” and “female” Shmoo, and the “male” is required to run away from the “female” in the Sadie Hawkins Day race. When the “female” catches her mate, they are wedded by Marryin’ Sam. After paying him, they head back to the Valley of the Shmoon, and the citizens of Dogpatch lived well afterwards. But with this series, and many other, Capp was slightly criticized of hidden political meanings, many of which he disagreed with, and disproved. There are some political backgrounds here, though, and quite interesting too.
Al Capp made the Shmoos a sign for ultimate consumerism. While he never fully acknowledged to it for the public, it was evident in how they acted towards humans. Their only pleasure came from making those around them happy, which is why they would die of it when someone looked
Eventually, the citizens had exterminators come to get rid of the Shmoos. With a wish of no harm to them, Abner saves a “male” and “female” Shmoo, and the “male” is required to run away from the “female” in the Sadie Hawkins Day race. When the “female” catches her mate, they are wedded by Marryin’ Sam. After paying him, they head back to the Valley of the Shmoon, and the citizens of Dogpatch lived well afterwards. But with this series, and many other, Capp was slightly criticized of hidden political meanings, many of which he disagreed with, and disproved. There are some political backgrounds here, though, and quite interesting too.
Al Capp made the Shmoos a sign for ultimate consumerism. While he never fully acknowledged to it for the public, it was evident in how they acted towards humans. Their only pleasure came from making those around them happy, which is why they would die of it when someone looked