Andy Capp Statue In Trouble: Drunken Wife-Beater’s Image Questioned

Reg Smythe's Andy Capp is showing signs of becoming the symbol of the under-the-radar nature of even the most successful comic strips. Ever since Smythe's passing, articles and web entries galore have wondered aloud how a character with Andy Capp's opposite-of-delicate proclivities could carry a popular strip in the mid to late 20th Century. While there is something to be said about the phenomenon, similar to not noticing a peculiar or even despicable acquaintance one has grown accustomed to until you move away or they die, my guess is that Capp's world might have appealed to Americans in part because its 1950s row-house milieu was strange to them -- I remember as a child being totally freaked out that he took his bath in a big tub on the floor into which his wife poured water from a kettle.

In this latest article, a statue in the cartoonist's hometown has been called into question.
 
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