Andy Capp

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The Andy Capp comic strip used to run in the Sunday newspaper when I was growing up. I liked it, especially all the slang like bloke and mate. Fun stuff for an Italian-American kid.
He even has his own line of snacks stateside, even if they're relatively hard (but not difficult) to find.
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They're not fries, nor are they crisps or chips. They are their own weird entity.
 

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The Andy Capp comic strip used to run in the Sunday newspaper when I was growing up. I liked it, especially all the slang like bloke and mate. Fun stuff for an Italian-American kid.
Yes, it came as a surprise to me, back in 1982, on my first time visiting relatives near Chicago, seeing Andy Capp in the Sunday papers :unsure:
 

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Ouais!!Andy Capp! Back in the 80es, there was a monthly off-spring to Charlie Hebdo, "Charlie Mensuel",96-page full of weird funny stuff. There were Dick Tracy, Peanuts, Lil'Abner,B.C by Johnny Hart, Krazy Kat, E.C Segar's Popeye, all sorts of European and French comics, -included the infamous Bill Tidy's Fosdyke saga which is the craziest stuff I've ever read.I was a huge fan! The man behind that was the cartoonist George Wolkinski, and so , I owe him many good laughs as a reader . Sadly , he was shot with his fellows in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack. But, Andy Capp abides!
 

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Ouais!!Andy Capp! Back in the 80es, there was a monthly off-spring to Charlie Hebdo, "Charlie Mensuel",96-page full of weird funny stuff. There were Dick Tracy, Peanuts, Lil'Abner,B.C by Johnny Hart, Krazy Kat, E.C Segar's Popeye, all sorts of European and French comics, -included the infamous Bill Tidy's Fosdyke saga which is the craziest stuff I've ever read.I was a huge fan! The man behind that was the cartoonist George Wolkinski, and so , I owe him many good laughs as a reader . Sadly , he was shot with his fellows in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack. But, Andy Capp abides!
I used to love The Fosdyke Saga, glad to see that Bill Tidy is still with us at 88, though he's had recent health problems.

 
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