Since then, the strip has been continued by unnamed successors, though for years, Smythe's signature remained affixed to it. Reg Smythe wrote and drew Andy Capp, both daily and Sunday, until his death in 1998. Andy was even animated once, when he crossed over with Family Guy in the episode 'And the Wiener Is.', which first aired on August 8, 2001. The strip even had a spin-off of sorts in 1960, Fleetway Publications, which was owned by The Mirror, launched a successful comic book titled Buster, whose main character was supposedly Andy Capp's son (though this family connection was never mentioned in the strip itself and was later forgotten in the comic book as well). (Maybe the comic should be criticised for glorifying such negative behavior instead.) Since the very beginning, Andy has been immensely popular among the people he supposedly skewers. But Smythe, himself a native of that region, had nothing but affection for his good-for-nothing protagonist, a fact which showed in his work.

Even his name is a perfect phonetic rendition of that region's pronunciation of the word 'handicap' (which the cartoonist chose because a handicap is exactly what Andy is to his hard-working wife, Flo). In its early days, the Andy Capp strip was accused of perpetuating stereotypes about Britain's Northerners, who are seen in other parts of England as chronically unemployed, dividing their time between the living room couch and the neighborhood pub, with a few hours set aside for fistfights at soccer games. It also was syndicated in the United States by Creators Syndicate, starting in 1963. Andy Capp is a British comic strip set in Hartlepool, created by Reg Smythe in 1957 for the London Daily Mirror.

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