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Andy Capp (Picture 3). Andy Capp cartoon images gallery 3. Andy Capp cartoon pictures collection 3. Andy Capp is lazy, belligerent, unskilled at any socially acceptable occupation, and usually drunk. Yet, he's one of the greatest successes in the history of British comics, and capable of giving a good many American strips stiff competition on their own turf. Andy started on August 5, 1957, in Britain's Daily Mirror. At first, he appeared only in the edition circulated in Northern England (the part of the country where he lives), but within six months he was being distributed throughout the country. He was created by Reg Smythe, a former postal worker who changed careers in his 30s because cartooning looked like it offered more scope for achievement — and he did achieve quite a bit as a cartoonist, as his strip was soon syndicated all over the world — in the U.S., by Creators Syndicate (Thatch, Baby Blues). It reached America in 1963. Andy Capp (Picture 3). Andy Capp cartoon images gallery 3. Andy Capp cartoon pictures collection 3. Early on, the Andy Capp strip was accused of perpetuating stereotypes about Britain's Northerners, who are seen in other parts of England as chronically unemployed, dividing their time between the living room couch and the neighborhood pub, with a few hours set aside for fistfights at soccer games. Even his name is a perfect phonetic rendition of that region's pronunciation of the word "handicap" (which the cartoonist chose because a handicap is exactly what Andy is to his hard-working wife, Flo). But Smythe, himself a native of that region, had nothing but affection for his good-for-nothing protagonist, a fact which showed in his work. Since the very beginning, Andy has been immensely popular among the people he supposedly skewers. Andy Capp (Picture 3). Andy Capp cartoon images gallery 3. Andy Capp cartoon pictures collection 3.