1954: Born Northampton, UK.

1967-72: Learned to get stoned. Left school to work in local library. Read most of the books. Got Bored.

1973: Left library to work for high-street bookstore. Got stoned. Stole most of the books. Got bored.

1974: Got unemployed. Got stoned. Got bored.

1975: Drove crane and butchered trees in timber yard. Got stoned. Got annoyed with boss. Got fired.

1976: Sold paperback books to newsagents from van. Got very bored.

1978: Got unemployed again. Remembered long-standing intention to become a writer. Got bored.

1979: Got arrested for getting stoned. Got off.

1979-84: Worked in the taxi business. Got weird and became nocturnal.

1984: Got lucky. Got introduction to a comic company editor. Combined writing comics with driving cabs.

1986: Got luckier. Got partner and three step-children to keep me in touch with reality.

1987-99: Wrote a bunch of strange comic-book fiction from a smoke-filled room in rural British midlands. Enjoyed doing it, mostly.

1999: Became a grandparent. Got stoned.

1999-2003: Interspersed sporadic comic work with screenplay writing. Got very stoned in futile attempt to maintain perspective in a world where increasingly "Nothing is true (and therefore) everything is permitted".