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Reginald Smyth (10 July 1917 – 13 June 1998) was a British cartoonist who created the popular, long-running Andy Capp comic strip. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Early life and military service
Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, seen in the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon , it was later expanded to four panels.
Reg Smythe's Andy Capp makes its debut. The first episode of Jack Dunkley's The Larks is printed. The series will run until 1985. [13] Pat l’irlandese (Pat the Irishman), by Aurelio Galeppini and Gian Luigi Bonelli is first published, which marks the debut of the Irish boxer Pat Mac Ryan, who becomes a helper of Tex Willer.
Buster Capp is a British comic strip series which debuted on 28 May 1960 in the magazine Buster and ran until January 2000. The character was the mascot of the magazine too. The series is a spin-off of Andy Capp, starring Andy's young son Buster, despite not being drawn by the original artist of that comic, Reg Smythe.
Andy Capp was born at 70 miles per hour along the A1 motorway heading south to London. Reg said “that the journey down south took 7 hours and to come up with the name of Andy Capp and be confident of that name took me nearly 3 hours, he was probably conceived between Doncaster and Stamford in a haze of petrol stations and toilet stops!
Andy Capp by Reg Smythe (1957–1975; continued by Field Newspaper Syndicate and then eventually by Creators Syndicate) Big George by Virgil Partch (1960–1975; continued by Field Newspaper Syndicate and then eventually by King Features until 1990) [8] Bruce Gentry by Ray Bailey (1949–1955) Dateline: Danger! by John Saunders & Al McWilliams ...
1977: Foreign comical work: Andy Capp: Si c'est pas pire, ça ira! by Reginald Smythe, SAGE; 1977: Foreign realistic work: Les Peaux-Rouges : Les Maîtres du tonnerre by Hans G. Kresse, Casterman; 1977: French comical work: Le Baron noir part 1 by Yves Got (artist) and René Pétillon (author), GOT
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. The coloured backgrounds denote the publisher: – indicates D. C. Thomson. – indicates AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics. – indicates Viz.