Years ago, I had a brief over-the-phone friendship with Elliott Caplin, who was invariably identified as Al Capp's younger brother. He was actually a man of great accomplishment on his own. In addition to working on his brother's little empire in both creative and managerial capacities, Elliott was a successful writer of plays, novels, short stories and an awful lot of newspaper comic strips. He is said to have created and/or agented and/or written about two dozen different ones, some anonymously. The Heart of Juliet Jones was probably the most successful.
TV host Russel Harvey interviewed Elliott in 1988. Here is that conversation…