I totally agree about Andy Capp. The only interesting thing I ever heard about Andy Capp was from Jean Shepherd.
He said the Andy Capp title was a cockney accent pun for Handicap. Apparently Andy was a cockney horse race fanatic. That tidbit did make the strip any funnier to me.
I see you've never met 'Andy Capp' popularly serialised in UK papers, together with Peanuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Capp
I totally agree about Andy Capp. The only interesting thing I ever heard about Andy Capp was from Jean Shepherd.
He said the Andy Capp title was a cockney accent pun for Handicap. Apparently Andy was a cockney horse race fanatic. That tidbit did make the strip any funnier to me.