This Site Raises A Hot Fry To The Good People of Hartlepool, England



Editor & Publisher records an affirmative vote for a statue of Andy Capp in creator Reg Smythe's hometown of Hartlepool, England.

Although Andy Capp was an accomplished strip that enjoyed worldwide success in paperbacks and syndication figures matched by less than a dozen features from the second half of the 20th Century, the lead's shiftless, thuggish and drunken behavior primarily towards a long-suffering wife on whom he cheats and occasionally engages in fistfights makes him a potentially tough sell in the posthumous honors department.

As one can see above, Capp also has to be the only strip character in comics history whose own book series titles occasionally painted him as a dangerous lout, stopping one step shy of stuff like "He Passed Out Seven Punches Ago, Andy Capp." I'm not even sure his name would get over on a strip submission today.

Admirably, Hartlepool's hometown pride and sense of humor negotiates such concerns with aplomb, and they have our deepest respect.
 
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