Well, as part of the new day job I've been asked to do a mini-presentation, the idea being that I let the rest of my area know who I am. You know the kind of thing, where you stand up in front of about 50 people and bore them for 20 minutes or so about what you do and where you've worked before ? Yep .. that kind of presentation. I'm still in my probationary 6 months, but what the hell, a few of them know about my 'comic book' hobby now anyway so what could possibly go wrong... Anyway, here's what I'll present to them... …maybe I should have kept all of this quiet until I’d passed my 6 month probation period…
I'm your typical 20th Century bloke living in the 21st Century and wondering what's going on. I like to live in a world where there are still questions to be answered and mysterious happennings. My ideal magazine would be the result of combining Fortean Times with New Scientist ... and leaving it to the reader to interpret.
I work against IT during the day, and at night I try to steal moments to create comic books. Either as writer, artist or both. I've formed a small independent comic company in the UK, Accent UK, with Colin Mathieson, which produces quite well received annual themed anthologies, but is also now producing one shots. Comics that I've co-created and written include ''The Wolfmen'',''The Fall Of The Wolfmen'', with art by Andy Bloor and the 2009 EAGLE Award winning ''Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man?'' which was illustrated by Marleen Lowe. My own little doodlings appear in webcomic called ''Strange Times'' and the yearly anthologies.