Buster (sport comic) Buster (sport comic) Buster was a sport comic magazine published in Sweden 1967 - 2005, in Norway 1972-1994 and in Finland in the 1970s and 1980s. In December 2005, Egmont discontinued the publication of "Buster" magazine. At first most of the material was taken from the UK edition but as time went on the magazine produced more and more original material. This included "taking over" the "Buster" comic strip itself and changing the main character's appearance to a more typical sports-interested teenager instead of the son of Andy Capp. Other comics included many series from "Tiger" magazine (with a heavy
Al Capp commentary, "Li'l Abner" is considered a classic of the genre. The comic strip stars Li'l Abner Yokum—the simple-minded, loutish but good-natured and eternally innocent hayseed who lives with his parents—scrawny but superhuman Mammy Yokum, and shiftless, childlike Pappy Yokum. "Yokum" was a combination of "yokel" and "hokum", although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965–1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price. "It's phonetic Hebrew—that's what it is, all right—and that's what I was getting at with the name Yokum, more so than any attempt to sound "hickish,"" said