“Andy Capp” is currently appearing in both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Star for the duration of the Cheltenham Races this week.
The Mirror‘s sister paper – available in newsagents and digitally via services such as Magzter – is running brand new strips by the regular team of Lawrence Goldsmith and Sean Garnett, who were asked to create a series of bespoke strips.
“These guys do 364 ‘Andy Capp’ strips a year for the Mirror and now they’re doing a handful of extra ones for the Star. That’s some talent!” says cartoonist and comic archivist Lew Stringer.
He’s not wrong – although the Daily Star does caution its readers not to listen to any of Andy’s “notoriously bad” racing tips!
The Daily Mirror “Andy Capp” strip is available online on GoComics – although it isn’t, at present, including the new Daily Star strips.
Sean and Lawrence won the best continuing cartoon series for “Andy Capp” earlier this year in the 2025 Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation awards.
Lawrence Goldsmith is a newspaper artist and cartoonist, who’s been in the industry for over 40 years, working on national newspapers in the UK and Ireland. He has produced information graphics, general illustration, cartoons and caricatures and won a national award twice for information graphics published in 2001 and 2003.
For the last few years he’s been working full time on the “Andy Capp” comic which is syndicated internationally by Creators. He draws the feature and writes it with his friend the writer and journalist, Sean Garnett.
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
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According to comments on that GoComics link, that website doesn’t match what’s in the Daily Mirror (in fact, I read a Mirror for the first time in a couple of years a few weeks ago and couldn’t find the comics page, so I thought it had been dropped). The site even has a strip for Christmas Day, when there shouldn’t be one because the paper isn’t published that day.
GoComics publishes the internationally syndicated strips, so they aren’t necessarily the strips that run the same day in the Mirror, which, you are correct, has considerably reduced its strips content in recent years – to its detriment. A combination, unfortunately, of declining sales, increased costs, and the short sighted decision making of past editors. And yes, we’re looking at you, Piers Morgan, among others…