A bronze statue of a well known cartoon character Andy Capp at the Headland Hartlepool Co Durham, home of his creator Reg Smythe

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Andy Capp is a long-running British comic strip character created by Reginald Smythe, seen in the The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since August 5, 1957. The strip is syndicated internationally by Creators Syndicate. Originally a single-panel cartoon, Smythe later expanded it to four panels. The character is also licensed as the mascot for a line of snack foods, and a defunct chain of miniature golf courses in Brevard County, Florida. Smythe received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for the strip for 1974. Statue erected in 2007

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Size: 3750px × 5000px
Location: The Headland, Heugh, Hartlepool, Co. Durham, England UK GB EU Europe
Photo credit: © Peter Jordan_NE / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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