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Never really "got" Andy Capp or understood why it was treated as top-tier comic

It was on the front page of my paper's Sunday comics section...
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
Never once laughed at Andy Capp Never laughed at Family C...
magical razzmatazz tanning salon
  02/18/19
...
hateful motley temple
  02/18/19
Right. But Family Circus was just a little one-panel thing....
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
Family Circus is for old women with the easiest "kids s...
nubile field organic girlfriend
  02/18/19
Yeah, it wasn't even really supposed to be funny I think.
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
well it’s clearly no peanuts or c&h. otoh, it was ...
Cerebral yarmulke
  02/18/19
Maybe I just was't old enough to get it. Hagar was kind of...
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
rate foxtrot as an hbo original series.
Cerebral yarmulke
  02/18/19
most of those old comics were no good
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
rick o'shay was decent...as was that one with the phantom--s...
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Far Side was 180 as shit
Plum bonkers round eye den
  02/19/19
maybe the best ever
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/19/19
why is it the two best comics of all time ended with the art...
supple fluffy office police squad
  02/19/19
alley oop was good
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Never read Alley Oop --wasn't it a dramatic comic. I never r...
Awkward church
  02/19/19
eh, sort of in between drama and adventure...social commenta...
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/19/19
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was ok
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
WTF, I never ever heard of those
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
about an old hillbilly man who lived in a shack up in the hi...
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
B.C. was good
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Dick Tracy was ok
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
I liked Mister Boffo and of course the Far Side.
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/18/19
Gasoline Alley --boring
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Mary Worth--boring & worthless
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Little Orphan Annie--mundane
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Marmaduke--total bore
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
the phantom was pretty good...they had an asian cook whose b...
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
Prince Valiant was decent...so-so
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
is that the one where he comes home drunk and beats his wife
Gaped fuchsia therapy
  02/18/19
it doesn't quite go there, but close
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/18/19
yes, which is why you have to be mid thirties to understand ...
snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness
  02/19/19
[Flo] stands on the front step and shouts: “Me ‘...
snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness
  02/19/19
Its good working class brit humor
trip avocado immigrant
  02/18/19
1. Dilbert *huge gap* 2. Zits 3. Hagar the Horrible ...
electric fantasy-prone parlor
  02/19/19
(scott adams’ mom)
Cerebral yarmulke
  02/19/19
If you doubt that Dilbert isn't the best comic in history, y...
electric fantasy-prone parlor
  02/19/19
i’m just kidding. love dilbert. my favorite one was wh...
Cerebral yarmulke
  02/19/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspaper_comic_strips
Vigorous swollen striped hyena
  02/19/19
Herman was 180
Khaki Personal Credit Line Indirect Expression
  02/19/19
anyone else old enough to remember bloom county?
supple fluffy office police squad
  02/19/19
*Crunch*
sable concupiscible principal's office
  02/19/19
I liked Ask Shagg
Aphrodisiac base
  02/19/19
Sherman’s Lagoon or GTFO
Razzle maize bawdyhouse
  02/19/19
Read this article and I bet your views will change http:...
yapping depressive sandwich
  02/19/19
ty, this is the kind of scholarship I was looking for
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/19/19
Jaysus! That is a dissertation not an article
Awkward church
  02/19/19
let me sum up the entire strip for you: Andy likes to go out...
chocolate alcoholic hominid
  02/19/19
his hot fries are pretty damn good
Flushed Chad Dingle Berry
  02/19/19
...
Awkward church
  02/19/19
Equally good but very different from Chester's Hot Fries. ...
sable concupiscible principal's office
  02/19/19
i never realized until now that andy capp was british, but t...
bat shit crazy brilliant sweet tailpipe rehab
  02/19/19
I didn't realize until years later that his name was a pun o...
Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap
  02/19/19
I never realized this until I read this post
snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness
  02/19/19
Great Hot Fries
carnelian offensive weed whacker black woman
  02/19/19
...
Chest-beating Area
  02/19/19
ran here
thirsty out-of-control electric furnace
  02/19/19


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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

It was on the front page of my paper's Sunday comics section, right under Peanuts, and later Calvin and Hobbes. It sucked, as far as I could tell (as a young child).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805952)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:21 PM
Author: magical razzmatazz tanning salon

Never once laughed at Andy Capp

Never laughed at Family Circus, never really “got” that one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805960)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: hateful motley temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805962)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:23 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

Right. But Family Circus was just a little one-panel thing. Andy Capp got top billing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805973)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:24 PM
Author: nubile field organic girlfriend

Family Circus is for old women with the easiest "kids say the darndest thing" schtick ever. I don't think its good or impressive, but there is a certain amount of genius in the scam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805983)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:25 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

Yeah, it wasn't even really supposed to be funny I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805989)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: Cerebral yarmulke

well it’s clearly no peanuts or c&h. otoh, it was much better than cathy or marmaduke. it was right in line with hagar the horrible and blondie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805967)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:24 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

Maybe I just was't old enough to get it.

Hagar was kind of funny sometimes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805978)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:27 PM
Author: Cerebral yarmulke

rate foxtrot as an hbo original series.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805997)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:23 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

most of those old comics were no good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805976)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:27 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

rick o'shay was decent...as was that one with the phantom--steve canyon...

but brenda starr was not much good...

neither was Dondi...and what about that little girl with the black frizzy hair...nancy, was that her name?

Dagwood Bumstead was marginal...his sandwiches were the only good thing about it...sarge and beetle bailey was also stupid...

dennis the menace was annoying...and the tv show was worse..

l'il abner was ok...



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805998)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:23 AM
Author: Plum bonkers round eye den

Far Side was 180 as shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806282)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:28 AM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

maybe the best ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806294)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 8:54 AM
Author: supple fluffy office police squad

why is it the two best comics of all time ended with the artist retiring early?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806941)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:39 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

alley oop was good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806071)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:32 AM
Author: Awkward church

Never read Alley Oop --wasn't it a dramatic comic. I never read that shit (Dondi, The Phantom, Prince Valiant, etc.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807378)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 11:50 AM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

eh, sort of in between drama and adventure...social commentary/parody, a lot of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807799)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:41 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806085)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:46 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

WTF, I never ever heard of those

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806114)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:52 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

about an old hillbilly man who lived in a shack up in the hills

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806151)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:44 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

B.C. was good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806102)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:46 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Dick Tracy was ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806113)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:47 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

I liked Mister Boffo and of course the Far Side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806122)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:48 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Gasoline Alley --boring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806125)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:50 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Mary Worth--boring & worthless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806139)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:51 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Little Orphan Annie--mundane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806145)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:53 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Marmaduke--total bore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806153)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:57 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

the phantom was pretty good...they had an asian cook whose button kept popping off his shirt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806170)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:59 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

Prince Valiant was decent...so-so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806181)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:54 PM
Author: Gaped fuchsia therapy

is that the one where he comes home drunk and beats his wife

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806160)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:58 PM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

it doesn't quite go there, but close

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806177)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:13 AM
Author: snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness

yes, which is why you have to be mid thirties to understand its genius

I'm pretty sure his wife knowcking him on the head with a rolling pin was the punch line of a good 50% of these

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807273)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:20 AM
Author: snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness

[Flo] stands on the front step and shouts: “Me ‘usband knocks me about!!” Andy responds with an announcement of his own: “Don’t believe a word she says! – She’s punch drunk!!”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807319)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:57 PM
Author: trip avocado immigrant

Its good working class brit humor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806171)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:03 AM
Author: electric fantasy-prone parlor

1. Dilbert

*huge gap*

2. Zits

3. Hagar the Horrible

4. Blondie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806199)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:05 AM
Author: Cerebral yarmulke

(scott adams’ mom)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806208)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:06 AM
Author: electric fantasy-prone parlor

If you doubt that Dilbert isn't the best comic in history, you haven't read the other shitty ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806215)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:13 AM
Author: Cerebral yarmulke

i’m just kidding. love dilbert. my favorite one was when the boss was shown to be incompetent. classic! reminded me of my boss!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806245)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:08 AM
Author: Vigorous swollen striped hyena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspaper_comic_strips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806228)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:12 AM
Author: Khaki Personal Credit Line Indirect Expression

Herman was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806241)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 8:55 AM
Author: supple fluffy office police squad

anyone else old enough to remember bloom county?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806944)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:15 AM
Author: sable concupiscible principal's office

*Crunch*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807006)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:17 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac base

I liked Ask Shagg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807009)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:23 AM
Author: Razzle maize bawdyhouse

Sherman’s Lagoon or GTFO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807026)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:00 AM
Author: yapping depressive sandwich

Read this article and I bet your views will change

http://www.planetslade.com/andy-capp-reg-smythe-v3.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807193)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:11 AM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

ty, this is the kind of scholarship I was looking for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807259)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:35 AM
Author: Awkward church

Jaysus! That is a dissertation not an article

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807389)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:10 AM
Author: chocolate alcoholic hominid

let me sum up the entire strip for you: Andy likes to go out for beers with his mates and play some pool, darts, etc. His wife doesn't like it and drags him home.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807253)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:28 AM
Author: Flushed Chad Dingle Berry

his hot fries are pretty damn good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807361)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:33 AM
Author: Awkward church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807384)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:03 PM
Author: sable concupiscible principal's office

Equally good but very different from Chester's Hot Fries.

Sometimes I mix em up together in a bowl!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808260)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:08 PM
Author: bat shit crazy brilliant sweet tailpipe rehab

i never realized until now that andy capp was british, but then again i haven't read one since i was probably 8

nor did i really get the "andy capp" play on words

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807932)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:09 PM
Author: Grizzly Abusive Hall Jap

I didn't realize until years later that his name was a pun on "Handicap"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807942)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:17 PM
Author: snowy voyeur twinkling uncleanness

I never realized this until I read this post

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807984)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:20 PM
Author: carnelian offensive weed whacker black woman

Great Hot Fries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807994)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:04 PM
Author: Chest-beating Area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808263)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:15 PM
Author: thirsty out-of-control electric furnace

ran here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808323)