What prompted you to draw cartoons?

To try and pacify the bullies at school, plus a steady diet of British and American comics as a child.

Have you any formal artistic training?

Only up to O-level Art.

What's the most difficult thing about producing a cartoon?

The hardest part is often getting the spatial balance right on paper and the precise wording. Japanese artists say it’s what you leave out that is most important and they are right.