Who was the visual model for Wee Hughie in The Boys comics?

Simon Pegg was the visual model for Wee Hughie in The Boys comics. Writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson created Hughie as an ordinary-looking young man, and Robertson based his appearance on Pegg after seeing him in the sitcom Spaced.

That likeness is deliberate rather than an indication that Pegg originally played Hughie in the comics. The character remains a fictional Scottish electronics-store worker who joins the Boys after the death of his girlfriend Robin. His initially unassuming appearance contrasts with the brutal superhero world he enters and with the increasingly dangerous work he performs for Billy Butcher.

The visual connection later shaped the screen adaptations. Jack Quaid portrays Hughie in the live-action series, while Simon Pegg plays Hughie’s father there and voices Wee Hughie in Diabolical. This can make the answer seem like a casting fact, but the question concerns the comics’ artwork: Pegg was the model for Hughie’s look, not the actor who portrayed him in the original comic-book series. James McAvoy, Martin Freeman, and Nick Frost were not the documented visual reference.