Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a character from the comic strip L'il Abner. A blustering Southern politician who wore a coonskin cap and carried a rifle to impress his constituents, Phogbound is cartoonist Al Capp's parody of the Southern Democrats who opposed the New Deal, of which Capp was a supporter. At one instance in the strip, Phogbound was unable to campaign in Dogpatch, so he sent his aides with a large balloon filled with hot air -- and nobody really noticed the difference. Lil Abner was a comic strip in United States newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the town of Dogpatch. ... Al Capp ( September 28, 1909– November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Lil Abner. ...