google_ad_client = "pub-1498877845272586"; Other than that, Abie hasn't been seen much in recent decades. Abie the Agent was a popular American comic strip about a Jewish car salesman by Harry Hershfield. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1977. He hit all the Jewish stereotypes ("It ain't the principle," he once told a waiter who overcharged him, "it's the ten cents"), but in a manner that could easily be seen as the gentle kidding it was. Nebraska, Butler County Overview Overview.