Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for August 17, 2021

you’re gonna get it, lad, once Andy finds out he’s been tricked

@Number Three Today’s strip IS funny, the lad being chased by our Hero Mr Andrew Capp avoided a punch up by diverting Andy’s attention to someone stealing his life blood , his beer :o) my avatar again is my birth sign Leo roaring his head of because he’s happy like am, how was your day? our day should be busy but we should cope I hope no shopping to do or errands to run just wait for the gas cylinder truck to come over to change a cylinder we are both in a fairly good mood but staying in the house as much as possible because of the infernal heat wave so we will drink lots of chilled bottled water and ice cream to keep hydrated , keep safe and thanks for caring young Lady

The ruse worked and halftime’s already past.

Dont you dare touch Andy’s beers!

Ha… Does running with both hands in front makes it any faster?

Cunning! If I were an observer, I would follow that player closely …

From Affie @ Number Three (& those of us that tag along): " Today’s strip IS funny, the lad being chased by our Hero Mr Andrew Capp avoided a punch up by diverting Andy’s attention to someone stealing his life blood , his beer :o) my avatar again is my birth sign Leo roaring his head of because he’s happy like am, how was your day? our day should be busy but we should cope I hope no shopping to do or errands to run just wait for the gas cylinder truck to come over to change a cylinder we are both in a fairly good mood but staying in the house as much as possible because of the infernal heat wave so we will drink lots of chilled bottled water and ice cream to keep hydrated , keep safe and thanks for caring young Lady."

Will this leave Andy foaming. Or will he become hop-ping mad. He will, I believe become very bitter. Hope that the Ref is a very stout fella, when he tries to keep the peace.

Andy will be “perturbed” because he was cheated. Hm.

I feel seen.

And saved him from getting sent off!!!

To this day, I cannot imagine why any team would want to have Andy Capp on it. Yes, I know, comics logic. But still…

I see he’s back from holiday

Andy should know by now that resourcefulness and cunning beat ruthlessness and greed every time!

That deception wouldn’t have worked if his beer was properly safeguarded in the first place.

I remember Andy playing with a cigarette in his mouth.

I used to read several newspapers at libraries before COVID. I have access to most of these papers, seeing them exactly as they are, through one of the libraries I go to, even from home. Another one, which is the last of those papers running this strip (on weekdays), is available exactly as it appears on newspapers.com. As a Wikipedia editor I have free access to that site. It is, however, a month behind, which is why I have been coming to this site for this strip since COVID closed the libraries. Eldo’s classic strips would have guaranteed I’d come here anyway. I think the library had quit subscribing to this paper anyway once it opened back up.

Regardless of the date the letter to the editor ran, here’s what it said. The newspaper needs an update to its comics pages. Of this strip the writer said, “[H]e’s a lazy violent drunk, for Pete’s sake!”

He knows Andy very well. Of course, he’s dead meat once Andy realizes he’s been flim flammed.

I think this is the first time I realized that AC has no eyes.