- Buster Capp
Buster Capp is the fictional son of
Andy Capp and Flo, and the star of his own comic simply called "Buster".Buster has been a contentious issue among his own fans, and fans of "
Andy Capp ". The main reason for this is that Andy is not exactly father material.Andy was only ever seen in the very early "Buster" comic strips, when the full title of the comics was "Buster: Son of Andy Capp". The association was dropped a year or so later but Buster continued to wear his father's cap up until
1992 , when it was ditched in favor of a more modernbaseball cap .In the later years of "Buster comic" there was more mention of his famous father, even having Andy himself appear in an issue. As the comic was failing, there was presumably an attempt to ring in Andy Capp fans into the comic.
Speculation on the Buster Comic forums has arisen over Buster's origins: is the storyline supposed to take place after the Andy Capp comic series, or is it supposed to take place in an alternate universe?
There also existed a Swedish version of Buster Capp, done directly for the Swedish edition, this version was a heavily sports-oriented comedic strip.
Buster's strip was originally drawn by
Hugh McNeill , who was followed byReg Parlett in1974 .Tom Paterson in turn took over from Parlett in1985 and drew the strip until1990 .Jimmy Hansen then became the official artist of the strip; in reality though, the last new Buster strip by Hansen was done in1996 , and all the following strips were reprints of Hansen's earlier work.
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