Some background history for you (it really should be in the “About Andy Capp” frame at the side).
The strip has been running in the British “Daily Mirror” newspaper since the very early 1950’s. In those early years, Andy was a recently demobilized WW2 squaddie who still wore his Army greatcoat with the “DLI” shoulder-legend. This identifies him instantly as being from the North-East of England - even today, a bastion of male chauvanism where old-time attitudes persist. In those early days, in fact, Andy would often punch Flo out - he was a classic Geordie wife-beater - but this has long since dissappeared from the comic. In more recent years, Flo has given as good as she gets, clobbering Andy and engaging in furious fights with him.
In the last ten years, the Daily Mirror has experimented with a “modern” cartoon strip about life as seen through the eyes of Andy and Flo’s grand-daughter. She (Mandy Capp) is a sassy cynic who sees most men around her are ineffectual and useless, like her grand-dad, and this forum might do worse than get the Internet rights to it, out of interest.
Hi Chaps
Some background history for you (it really should be in the “About Andy Capp” frame at the side).
The strip has been running in the British “Daily Mirror” newspaper since the very early 1950’s. In those early years, Andy was a recently demobilized WW2 squaddie who still wore his Army greatcoat with the “DLI” shoulder-legend. This identifies him instantly as being from the North-East of England - even today, a bastion of male chauvanism where old-time attitudes persist. In those early days, in fact, Andy would often punch Flo out - he was a classic Geordie wife-beater - but this has long since dissappeared from the comic. In more recent years, Flo has given as good as she gets, clobbering Andy and engaging in furious fights with him.
In the last ten years, the Daily Mirror has experimented with a “modern” cartoon strip about life as seen through the eyes of Andy and Flo’s grand-daughter. She (Mandy Capp) is a sassy cynic who sees most men around her are ineffectual and useless, like her grand-dad, and this forum might do worse than get the Internet rights to it, out of interest.