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I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I was into comic books as a kid.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.