Rediscovering Al Capp's Shmoo

[beamjockey]

Fantastic creatures still lurk here and there, and one never knows when they will turn up.

In the June 2012 issue of Symmetry, a colorful magazine devoted to the world of particle physics, you will find my article The Shmoos of the Tevatron.

Particles like the top quark weren’t the only characters to appear at Fermilab’s Tevatron. A physicist waxes nostalgic as scientists prepare to celebrate the accelerator’s contributions to science, technology and society at a symposium this month.

Illustration: Sandbox Studio, Chicago. Shmoo copyright Capp Enterprises, Inc. Used in Symmetry by permission.

Fans of Drink Tank will recall that this article previously appeared in that fanzine's fabulously thick 300th issue (a large 11.8 MB PDF).

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Just so y'all weren't eating them.

[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

I loved the shmoos when I was young. I'm glad they found a home.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

According to the Chamber of Commerce webiste, for Flin Flon, MB, "One of the most notable accomplishments of early Chamber of Commerce was the statue of Flintabbatey Flonatin which now lies by the Tourist Bureau near the entrance of Flin Flon. With the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Flin Flon Trout Festival Association four thousand dollars was collected to help with the project of building a fifteen foot statue based on the Al Capp drawing of the character from his book 'The Sunless City' from which the city of Flin Flon was named."

K.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I did not know that!

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

I think my father would have liked your shmoos. He certainly had some interesting stories from his time with the physicists at Argonne in the '50's and '60's. (Foolproof is easy. Ph.D. proof is hard.)