Andy Capp

andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe (1917-1998), seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single panel cartoon, Smyth later expanded it to four panels.

Andy is a working class figure who never actually works, living in Hartlepool, a horbour town in northeast England. The title of the strip is a pun, a perfect phonetic rendition of that region's pronunciation of the word "handicap", as well as a reference to the main character's trademark flat cloth cap.