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Raeburn van Buren - Abbie an' Slats daily 1946

Artists: Raeburn van Buren (All) , Elliot Caplin (Writer)

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Raeburn van Buren - Abbie an' Slats daily 1946 Comic Art

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Title:	Raeburn van Buren - Abbie an' Slats daily 1946
Artist:	Raeburn van Buren (All)
Artist:	Elliot Caplin (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	492
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	12/16/2021
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Abbie an' Slats is one of those long-running strips that must have been quite popular in its day, but seems to have left no lasting impression on popular culture. There've always been lots of originals available, at reasonable prices. I think Raeburn van Buren was an excellent illustrator, designed great characters, and it has lots of period charm and detail, as in the background characters in this example. I admit that I haven't been able to get a feel for the writing of the strip (originally by Al Capp, who then handed it off to his brother Elliot), but it was a favorite of the young Jules Feiffer, who said of it, "I thought it was a perfect comic strip. It was the equivalent, I�ve written about this elsewhere, the equivalent of what Preston Sturges and in a sense Frank Capra were doing in the movies." Makes me want to read a solid run of it and see what he was talking about!

This one is from December 28, 1946. Love that fur coat!

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	Dan Mazur
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Last Login:	September 2025
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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/16/2021

Very pretty work as an idealized reflection of what society was back then. You can find the strips in the late 60's, and while you can see the same quality of art, it still spoke to the same audience. This is in a time when there was rapid societal changes and challenges that took up most people's attention.

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