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"I
first saw Mike's 200AD work when I was 17, and
along with Bolland, O'Neill and Gibbons' stuff,
was blown away by it. It was comic strip art with
a fine art edge - like Egon Schiele drawing Dan
Dare.
I was 22 when I first started showing up at the
200AD offices and saw the originals for Sky Chariots.
This was Mike's best ever work, I was just starting
up, and it made me feel like cutting my throat
to think I'd be up next, with my first comic work
(like whoever had to follow Jerry Lee Lewis on
stage after he'd blown up his piano).
The other thing is when I first met him, I immediately
checked out his feet to see if they were enormous
- they weren't. Unlike his talent."
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