​My first brave leap into the world of creativity was cartooning, spending every moment I could sitting at the dinner table with my grandad copying pictures from the likes of Buster, Whoopee and Whizzer & Chips. 
Then came the early '80s, when cartooning was rudely shoved aside by the seductive beepy-beep of computer games and the ZX Spectrum. Between playing games, my first foray into coding was creating a music program - heaven knows why, I don't have a musical bone in my body and couldn't hold a tune in a bucket.
​Years later I dabbled with creating games for the Amiga A500 using AMOS. With the advent of home PC's I went quiet for a few years.
I tried making games for the Spectrum retro scene using AGD. Unfortunately the poor Spectrum just couldn't cope with the huge graphics and the number of animation frames I wanted to use, and so I discovered GameMaker. Not a million miles away from the Amiga's AMOS I picked up the basics pretty quickly and have been making PC games ever since.
Mr Computer Nerd 1982
​The cartooning thing has always remained throughout this time, but is now focused on making game graphics, artwork for game inlays and even the odd (very simply) animated video here and there.
Not that I expected anyone to be remotely interested, but I went ahead and started writing my autobiography anyway. Turns out I got bored and abandoned the whole thing around age nine. Frankly, I doubt any readers will make it that far either—but hey, here it is, for what it's worth!  If nothing else, it’s a gripping account of how not to write a gripping account.

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Two covers from my homemade comics, drawn at my Grandad’s kitchen table in the seventies, have survived the years. The first seems to have mislaid its “free gift”—a joke wallet that looks suspiciously borrowed from "Cheeky Weekly", which happened to be dishing out the same thing around 1977. The second cover leaves no doubt about my influences: I was shamelessly channeling Sid Burgon, right down to brazenly copying his signature at the bottom! Now, with issue 1 and issue 3 in hand, I can’t help but wonder… did issue 2 vanish into the mists of time, or was it simply too embarrassed to show its face?
Now this one really is a disgrace!
Seems I shamelessly nabbed a well‑known comic and its star character—“Cheeky”—gave him a Carry‑On style rename, and plonked him into my own creation while swiping a pose straight from another comic of the day - namely "Plug" (issue 2). To soften the crime, I ditched Cheeky’s trademark teeth and rebranded him as “Saucy,” making them unlikely pals sharing the same comic.
This cover also seems to have sported a “free gift” at one point—though in reality it was probably just one of my own felt pens, later rescued when I realised I still needed that colour for something else.
If this creation had ever made it to print I’d have had Babs Windsor fronting the TV ads, no question.