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Born Reginald Smyth (without the "e"), he developed a talent for cartoon drawing while serving in the British Army during the Second World War . After being demobbed (e.g. demobilized; released from active duty), he returned to the North East Of England and worked several odd jobs before landing a position as a cartoonists at the London Newspaper '' The Mirror '' in 1954 . Smythe's parents, Andy and Florrie, were immortalised as Andy and Flo in the strip, which debuted three years later and made its way to the United States in 1963 . He received the National Cartoonist Society Award for Humor Comic Strip for 1974 for ''Andy Capp''. In the mid- 1970s , Smythe returned to Hartlepool , where he died of lung cancer in 1998 , aged 80. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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