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Cranberry Boggs, created by Don Dean, was a blatant ripoff of Li'l Abner that did not seem to even attempt to hide its ripoff status. The art work is clearly meant to be Al Capp-esque, the main character was a charming yokel who lived in a backwards town, and everyone speaks in dialect. The main difference, of course, is that Cranberry Boggs takes place in some kind of New England seaside town rather than in the South in the Appalachian hills. Allan Holtz seems to have a very low opinion of the strip, holding up Al Capp's creation as far superior. However, as someone who has never been a fan of Li'l Abner, I must disagree.
Cranberry Boggs may not be great, but the gag in today's strip is solid. The solution to the problem facing Woodchuck is clever, and the silent final panel is just funny on its own. Plus, the dialect is easier to parse than whatever it was that Capp was trying to write. To be fair, this is one of very few Cranberry Boggs strips I have read, but I think if a cartoonist can make a good strip once, he's got a least a few others in him as well.