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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...
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
Never once laughed at Andy Capp Never laughed at Family C...
Unholy Resort
  02/18/19
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Primrose gaping digit ratio
  02/18/19
Right. But Family Circus was just a little one-panel thing....
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
Family Circus is for old women with the easiest "kids s...
exhilarant house degenerate
  02/18/19
Yeah, it wasn't even really supposed to be funny I think.
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
well it’s clearly no peanuts or c&h. otoh, it was ...
Pale bipolar stock car brunch
  02/18/19
Maybe I just was't old enough to get it. Hagar was kind of...
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
rate foxtrot as an hbo original series.
Pale bipolar stock car brunch
  02/18/19
most of those old comics were no good
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
rick o'shay was decent...as was that one with the phantom--s...
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Far Side was 180 as shit
heady mustard hominid trailer park
  02/19/19
maybe the best ever
free-loading cuckold
  02/19/19
why is it the two best comics of all time ended with the art...
supple cuckoldry site
  02/19/19
alley oop was good
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Never read Alley Oop --wasn't it a dramatic comic. I never r...
Electric canary parlor
  02/19/19
eh, sort of in between drama and adventure...social commenta...
free-loading cuckold
  02/19/19
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was ok
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
WTF, I never ever heard of those
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
about an old hillbilly man who lived in a shack up in the hi...
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
B.C. was good
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Dick Tracy was ok
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
I liked Mister Boffo and of course the Far Side.
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/18/19
Gasoline Alley --boring
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Mary Worth--boring & worthless
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Little Orphan Annie--mundane
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Marmaduke--total bore
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
the phantom was pretty good...they had an asian cook whose b...
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
Prince Valiant was decent...so-so
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
is that the one where he comes home drunk and beats his wife
drunken zippy bawdyhouse dingle berry
  02/18/19
it doesn't quite go there, but close
free-loading cuckold
  02/18/19
yes, which is why you have to be mid thirties to understand ...
sticky nibblets address
  02/19/19
[Flo] stands on the front step and shouts: “Me ‘...
sticky nibblets address
  02/19/19
Its good working class brit humor
olive philosopher-king
  02/18/19
1. Dilbert *huge gap* 2. Zits 3. Hagar the Horrible ...
180 pea-brained principal's office mood
  02/19/19
(scott adams’ mom)
Pale bipolar stock car brunch
  02/19/19
If you doubt that Dilbert isn't the best comic in history, y...
180 pea-brained principal's office mood
  02/19/19
i’m just kidding. love dilbert. my favorite one was wh...
Pale bipolar stock car brunch
  02/19/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspaper_comic_strips
free-loading cuckold
  02/19/19
Herman was 180
Peach Yarmulke Fat Ankles
  02/19/19
anyone else old enough to remember bloom county?
supple cuckoldry site
  02/19/19
*Crunch*
sadistic submissive brethren
  02/19/19
I liked Ask Shagg
Swollen Disgusting Laser Beams Kitty
  02/19/19
Sherman’s Lagoon or GTFO
exciting sienna hall jewess
  02/19/19
Read this article and I bet your views will change http:...
cracking impressive locus internal respiration
  02/19/19
ty, this is the kind of scholarship I was looking for
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/19/19
Jaysus! That is a dissertation not an article
Electric canary parlor
  02/19/19
let me sum up the entire strip for you: Andy likes to go out...
spruce dead genital piercing skinny woman
  02/19/19
his hot fries are pretty damn good
Seedy doobsian french chef
  02/19/19
...
Electric canary parlor
  02/19/19
Equally good but very different from Chester's Hot Fries. ...
sadistic submissive brethren
  02/19/19
i never realized until now that andy capp was british, but t...
ultramarine kitty cat
  02/19/19
I didn't realize until years later that his name was a pun o...
snowy native fortuitous meteor
  02/19/19
I never realized this until I read this post
sticky nibblets address
  02/19/19
Great Hot Fries
Claret glittery goal in life telephone
  02/19/19
...
comical translucent university dog poop
  02/19/19
ran here
Sooty beady-eyed sex offender
  02/19/19


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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: Unholy Resort

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: Primrose gaping digit ratio



(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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: exhilarant house degenerate

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: Pale bipolar stock car brunch

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: Pale bipolar stock car brunch

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: heady mustard hominid trailer park

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: free-loading cuckold

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 cuckoldry site

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: free-loading cuckold

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: Electric canary parlor

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: free-loading cuckold

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: drunken zippy bawdyhouse dingle berry

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: free-loading cuckold

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: sticky nibblets address

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: sticky nibblets address

[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: olive philosopher-king

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: 180 pea-brained principal's office mood

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: Pale bipolar stock car brunch

(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: 180 pea-brained principal's office mood

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: Pale bipolar stock car brunch

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: free-loading cuckold

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: Peach Yarmulke Fat Ankles

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 cuckoldry site

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: sadistic submissive brethren

*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: Swollen Disgusting Laser Beams Kitty

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: exciting sienna hall jewess

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: cracking impressive locus internal respiration

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: Electric canary parlor

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: spruce dead genital piercing skinny woman

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: Seedy doobsian french chef

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: Electric canary parlor



(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: sadistic submissive brethren

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: ultramarine kitty cat

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: snowy native fortuitous meteor

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: sticky nibblets address

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: Claret glittery goal in life telephone

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: comical translucent university dog poop



(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: Sooty beady-eyed sex offender

ran here

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