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I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.