Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 12, 2012

now that Andy’s awake, would he mind holding the ladder?

Mrs. Picasso strikes a blow for feminism.

I saw it yesterday.

So, his life as an Englishman has been nothing but a dream and his head has always been on backwards?.Are you and Number Six conspiring?

Number 6 has stained Dagwood forever!

As the saying goes, “Wake up to a bright new morning!”

Flo is getting quite handy with buckets…

But despite her best efforts, she still recognizes the true state of affairs…

Loved it!

Rule one of the equal-rights book…Who ever makes the mess cleans it up !

Just knocked a little unconscious… But he will feel better down at the pub to recover from this horrible accident..

Now he join Blue Man Group.

It took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. (Good thing it didn’t need a second coat). It only took Flo about four seconds to paint Andy.

If I was actually there. I would be laughing my flippin’ head off (as Andy would say)

LOL LOL. Can’t stop laughing now.

xxx

Andy Capp 1957

There was a time where Andy used to get off his lazy butt and help around the house.

Look out, Andy!

Same here. Sometimes I am unable to find my OWN comments with the massive images.

And that’s good to hear about the start of the roof. Is Flickr similar to Photobucket?

As for the ‘Dagwood Capp’ strip. I loved it too. People on here have true talent!

I look at everybody’s childhood photos on the Frog Blog. I love them all. So sweet.

From the British Cartoon Archive:

In 1957 Reg Smythe was asked to create a cartoon series for the northern edition of the Daily Mirror. The result was “Andy Capp”, a flat-capped, pigeon-fancying, work-shy character, who first appeared on Monday, 5 August 1957. Smythe never revealed the inspiration for Andy, but it was widely assumed to be his father, who separated from his mother before the war. Smythe may have been reluctant to confirm this because Andy was a drunken wife-beater. In this early cartoon, published on 20 August 1957, Andy bluntly explains to Flo that one of his pleasures “‘appens to be knockin’ yer about.” Smythe later said that this “was a dreadful cartoon and it was terribly naive of me to have done it,” but there were no objections at the time, and in 1958 it was the opening cartoon in the first “Andy Capp” album. In the same year “Andy Capp” spread to all editions of the Daily Mirror, and then became a strip, being regularly voted Best Strip Cartoon of the Year from 1961 onwards. But it was not until the following year that Smythe stopped making jokes about Flo’s being beaten if she showed independence. By the time of Smythe’s death in 1998, “Andy Capp” was syndicated to 1,700 newspapers in 52 countries, but its violent origins were hard to forget. “Oh, Andy Capp”, Homer Simpson said approvingly in an episode of The Simpsons from 1993, “You wife-beating drunk.”

It was all meant in good fun. Get over it.

Poor Andy woke up feeling very blue.

♪♫♪♫♪♫

Take your brush and gently dip it Be careful not to drip it Wet paint (wet paint,wet paint)

Wet your roller then you roll it Calmly cooly you control it Wet paint (wet paint, wet paint)

Red and green and yellow too Purple pink and baby blue Wet paint (wet paint, wet paint )

You pour it in a bucket You mush it all around You take a mop and mop it Oh you slather it and slop it But be careful not to drop it On the cold cold ground Wet paint, wet paint Wet paint, wet paint♪♫♪♫♪♫

♪ ♫ Am I Blue? ♫ ♪LINK

I know what you get up to.

Trying to make the rest of us appear technologically incompetent..If I could draw anything other than geometric shapes……there’s an idea. Oh, it’s been done before.

I’m sorry to hear that. It was all in humour though. I’m not going to agree or disagree with your opinion. I don’t know the Dagwood strip at all to be honest.

rofllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!This was great…thanks to everyone for the extra’s and welcome back (again) to Beviek and hugs for you all Capp’rs!

oops drop the can of paint to his hubby Abby by Flo