Elliot Caplin

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Elliot A. Caplin (born December 25, 1913 in New Haven , Connecticut , † February 20, 2000 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts ) was an American comic book author .

life and work

Caplin, the younger brother of Al Capp , with whom he never worked, took over the comic strip Abbie to 'Slats drawn by Raeburn Van Buren in the 1940s and continued this until he was discontinued in 1971. In 1950 he began the series Big Ben Bolt together with the illustrator John Cullen Murphy , which continued until 1978. On March 9, 1953, the daily strip The Heart of Juliet Jones , created in collaboration with the illustrator Stan Drake , came onto the market. This was printed in up to 600 newspapers. Author of the comic strip Long Sam , written by Bob Lubbers was drawn, Caplin also took over from his brother. In 1962, created in collaboration with cartoonist Ken Bald , a comic adaptation of the Dr. Kildare .

In German two volumes of the series are of Caplin Big Ben Bolt in publishing Pollischansky appeared.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Douglas Martin: Elliot A. Caplin, 86, Writer Who Devised Comic Strip Plots at nytimes.com (English) , accessed September 7, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Elliot Caplin on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on September 7, 2012
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comics. From the mass sheet to multimedia adventure , Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 91.
  4. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 77.
  5. ↑ Elliot Caplin on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Caplin, Elliot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caplin, Elliot A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2000
Place of death Stockbridge , Massachusetts