‘Abe Martin' Cartoons Offered a Daily Dose of Country Philosophy
Hubbard's pen name was Kin Hubbard, and for those readers unfamiliar with the wisecracking Midwesterner, his primary claim to fame was creating a cartoon of a country bumpkin philosopher named Abe Martin whose homespun opinions were read by millions in more than 300 newspapers. The Indianapolis News was his parent newspaper, and his drawings and observations were so popular that the newspaper published him daily until 1980, 50 years after his death.
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