TRIVIA

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• He has a brown belt in Shotokan Karate, training under Sensei W. S. ‘Jimmy’ Liang and practices Yin Yoga under instructor Kim Krokosz.

• Steam, Smoke & Mirrors associate, proof-reader and website executive Angela Ryder is now convinced he is dyslexic as well as innumerate. 

• He appeared in sketches in various DVDs starring the comedian ‘Jethro’.        The Director said it was the worst acting he had ever seen.

• He inherited Bob Monkhouse's joke books.

• He drew the strip cartoon ‘Superyob’ in the punk rock newspaper ‘Street Sounds’.

• His influences include tv series ‘The Wild, Wild West’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘The Prisoner' and ‘Thunderbirds’, along with Harper Goff, Walt Disney, K.W. Jeter, Robert Rankin, Enid Blyton, Bob Marley, Mark Ronson, Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith, Paul Whitehouse, Elizabeth Hurley, Margaret Rutherford, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Watts of ‘The Rolling Stones’ and Guillermo del Toro.

• He has been mistaken for Sir Patrick Stewart but, despite his best efforts, has never yet been taken for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

• His hobbies include grave hunting, making Steampunk props (not very well), fantasy, sci-fi and horror movies, collecting TV and film-related figures and model cars.

• His first published mystery/adventure books were:

• The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Annual 1979,                                          written with David Angus. Artwork by Vicente Torregrosa.                                  Edited by John Barraclough and published by Grandreams.

• The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Annual 1980,                                         written with David Angus*. Artwork by David Lloyd.                                             Edited by John Barraclough and published by Grandreams.

• *Some internet sites erroneously credit the late Steve Moore as the author. A closer look at the stories clearly indicates the great comic book legend Mr Moore would have made a much better job of them.