The museum preserves not only original pages and works on paper, but also everyday objects, figurines, consumer goods, promotional items, merchandise and editorial inserts. Thanks to the iconic power of its characters, comics often make a fundamental transition: from a regular feature on the page to a physical object that becomes part of everyday life — a habit, a shared memory, a collectible rarity.
This is the case of Andy Capp and Flo (in Italian “Carlo e Alice”), a comic strip created by Reg Smythe in 1957 for the british newspaper Daily Mirror. It is a work of social satire that quickly becomes a remarkable success, published in more than 50 countries, translated into 14 languages, and even adapted for television and theatre.
Building on this global popularity, in the 1980s Wade Ceramics produces a teapot, a sugar bowl, a salt shaker and a napkin holder inspired by the famous English couple.
