I had lots of stories planned out for the curmudgeonly couple but I didn’t have the patience for sequential art, so instead I would just draw single panels or covers capturing the idea of the whole story. I used to do them in indian ink and painstakingly cut out the halftone letraset to add shading, a ritual that I used to love, and seeing the final product was especially gratifying as it would look like professionally made comic art (at least it did to me).

I was thinking about this recently, how much I would have loved all the toys that I now have at my disposal, and I wondered if years of using computers might have dulled my ‘analog’ skills, and how much more advanced my technique is than when I was a teenager doodling on the back of exercise books. Conclusion: I think I peaked at 15 and thank god for the advances in computer technology!