The Andy Capp Treasury

Reggie Smythe’s long-running newspaper strip about a working-class British layabout gets a hardcover collection with The Andy Capp Treasury, a single 1984 volume from Andrews McMeel. Smythe, the strip’s sole creator, compiles decades of his own droll, daily gags featuring the perpetually unemployed, flat-capped title character and his long-suffering wife, Flo. This treasury stands as a definitive snapshot of the beloved comic’s classic era, preserving Smythe’s wry observations on domestic life and pub culture for a new generation.