Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for October 16, 2012

Oh, THAT park. I’m in a place where a bunch of like minded people set sail for a place where they ate a type of bird which some people eat every year on the same day.

At least they rhyme

@Gweedo Murray

I’m going to try my best to tell you how to post a hyperlink. I’ll try not to make it too complicated. If you do decide to use Eldo’s after all then that’s totally fine.1) Start off with getting any webpages’s URL, this may be Youtube or any other website.

2) Copy and Paste the URL into the comment box or on Notepad to start off.

3) At the very beginning of the URL type: <a href = ’ and then at the very end type: ’> Link < / a >

4) Finally copy and paste into the comment box if you haven’t already, submit it and see if it works.By the way… Do not space out the characters like I have done here. Keep them together and don’t miss out any of the quotation marks. It’ll be the same process you do when you post an animation from the Cheesebuerger site.

Sorry if this is confusing… I can only follow instructions. I can’t write them.

Note: It’s optional for you to write ‘Link’ as mentioned in Step 3. You can put ‘Click Here’ or something.

My apologies in advance!

“Where is everybody?” Speaking of Hyde Park, NY, I’m there. How come FDR got to be buried in his own back yard but it’s illegal for anyone else?

Andy has no fear. His pre-race prep leaves nothing to chance…

He also knows how to handle any problem after the race…

As Number Six pointed out the other day, GoComics has made some sort of change that allows a whole image to be posted without the right margin cutoff that used to delete part of the image. A hearty ‘well done’ to the tech crew!

Andy’s bad luck isn’t only with the horses.

True enough, Flo. True enough…

xxx

If it’s not one thing, It’s another!

Congrats… You’ve done it!

Andy’s a sore loser.

Does anybody think he would have paid the rent if he had won?Fat chance.

Seems like over the years Andy has tended to bet on the dogs more than the horses. In fact I was surprised by all the horse classics our classics-hunters hunted up for us today! There used to be an old joke about a sports bettor: “I never bet on any event where human intelligence comes into play. This only leaves me betting on greyhounds and Southwest Conference football.”

Andy’s an expert ’andycapper.

I loved your strip, Number Six. And, again, more please! I have a few questions about Buster. Did Reg Smythe have any input into it himself? Was it a syndicate decision or his own idea? Was it only in comic book form or did it ever run in papers?

Not exactly, but I think you’ve worked it out.

@ Number 6….Brilliant!!@ Gweedo….Way to go!Terrific Tuesday Hugs ((((((( CAPPERS ! )))))))

Gweedo Murray said, about 18 hours ago

My day was productive and the weather cooperated nicely. I have the page saved where Eldo explained how to do all that stuff, but I’m in no hurry to go look it up as I am still going through the Catweazle episodes. I am on series 2, and will start the 4th episode shortly. If I see a post from you tomorrow on ‘live link’; I will try your how to and we’ll see what happens. I like to make sure I get one method down real good before starting another. Gina called me earlier and needs a ride to go look at an apartment at 8:30 am. Guess I will try to get on before then. I am in the evening of…………………………. my day.

Glad you are enjoying Catweazle. I have never saw it myself though but sounds very cute!

By the way, Love your dancing Kitty Cat underneath the fireworks.

I hope Gina finds herself a nice apartment very soon. What did she think of the one she saw today?

I hope you’re doing fine and well done again for mastering the hyperlinks today.

Took me ages to get the hang of it.

I’m proud of you!

Buster Capp is the fictional son of Andy Capp and Flo, and the star of his own comic simply called Buster.

Buster has been a contentious issue among his own fans, and fans of Andy Capp. The main reason for this is that Andy is not exactly father material.

Andy was only ever seen in the very early Buster comic strips, when the full title of the comics was Buster: Son of Andy Capp. The association was dropped a year or so later but Buster continued to wear his father’s cap up until 1992, when it was ditched in favor of a more modern baseball cap.

In the later years of Buster comic there was more mention of his famous father, even having Andy himself appear in an issue. As the comic was failing, there was presumably an attempt to ring in Andy Capp fans into the comic.

Speculation on the Buster Comic forums has arisen over Buster’s origins: is the storyline supposed to take place after the Andy Capp comic series, or is it supposed to take place in an alternate universe?

There also existed a Swedish version of Buster Capp, done directly for the Swedish edition by local Swedish artists, this version was a heavily sports-oriented humour strip.

Buster’s strip was originally drawn by Bill Titcombe but Hugh McNeill took over as artist after less than a year. After a few years Àngel Nadal took over and drew the strip until 1974, when he was followed by Reg Parlett. Tom Paterson in turn took over from Parlett in 1985 and drew the strip until 1990. Jimmy Hansen then became the strip’s artist until the comic folded in 2000; the comic started using reprints of Hansen’s earlier strips in 1998, but he still drew a complete new strip once a month, along with covers for every comic until the end of its life.

Buster was a long-running British comic (28 May 1960 – 4 January 2000) which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter. It was originally published by IPC Magazines Ltd; but in consequence of the sale of that company’s comics division, Fleetway, in the 1980s, Buster passed into the ownership of Egmont UK Ltd, who thereafter published it under the Fleetway imprint.

The title character, whose strip usually appeared on the front cover, was Buster himself. He was originally billed as Buster: Son of Andy Capp; Andy Capp is the lead character of the eponymous Daily Mirror newspaper strip, and Buster wore a similar flat cap to reinforce the connection. In early issues Buster often referred to his father, and Andy was seen in the comic (attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 issue; shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July issue that same year, the first of which was displayed by Buster’s mum with the pronouncement, “It’s a photo of Buster taken with Andy! You can see he’s got his dad’s fine straight nose”). Buster’s mum was often referred to by name, and was consistently drawn to resemble Andy’s wife Flo.

The connection with Andy Capp was gradually forgotten over time, and Andy no longer appeared in the strip by the mid-1960s. From 1965 the strip instead featured Buster in two long-running series: as lead character in the extremely durable “Buster’s Diary” (1960–68 and 1974–85) and in “Buster’s Dream World” (1968–74).

In its final years, the comic mostly consisted of reprints from either Buster itself or from one of the many comics which had merged with it over its 40-year run, of which there were a staggering fourteen in total.[citation needed]

Throughout, it was never revealed what Buster had under his cap, until the very last issue, when he took it off to reveal the same hairstyle that Dennis the Menace has.Source—-Wikipedia

Buster even had his own postage stamp.

Nice to have you back ((((((((((((((LADY)))))))))))))))))

Classic Capp.

At least that would be one happy horse!

it felt downright comfy….lol…thank you!