Fantastic BIO here re writer and cartoonist Reg Smythe who created the infamous Andy Capp.

http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/regsmythe/biography

An extract

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Andy Capp himself was supposedly based on a real person, and although
Smythe never revealed who that was, it was widely believed to have been
his father, who separated from his mother before the war. Smythe's
reluctance to identify his inspiration may have been due to the fact
that Andy Capp was openly portrayed as a drunken wife-beater. "He was
too savage, a proper bully," Smythe later admitted of the first Andy
Capp cartoons: "In one of the early ones [20 August 1957], Flo is
sitting on the floor with a black eye having had a beating from Andy and
he says: 'Look at it this way, Honey, I'm a man of few pleasures, and
one of them 'appens to be knockin' yer about.' That was a dreadful
cartoon and it was terribly naive of me to have done it." However, there
were no objections to such cartoons at the time, and in 1958 this was
chosen as the opening cartoon in the first Andy Capp album. Andy Capp's
wife, Florrie, was named after Smythe's mother Florence, and she
believed the model for Andy Capp was her husband Reg, although she said
he was "never an aggressive man."

Another inspiration for Andy Capp was undoubtedly Smythe himself,
whose views on marriage were described in 1963 by one interviewer as
dating "back to the Neolithic age." Smythe himself claimed in 1965 that
at home he did nothing "on principle." After his death the Daily
Mirror's cartoon editor, Ken Layson, recalled an occasion when he stayed
with Smythe and his wife: "After she had poured Reg his tea, Vera
walked back to the kitchen. He looked at his cup and shouted to her that
something was not right. Vera walked back and without another word,
turned the cup so the handle was pointing in the right direction."

The full bio is fascinating do visit the source link and have a read!