Si: Let’s see…  I would’ve been about 18 or 19 at the time.  After a couple of years of sending (frankly dreadful) submissions to 2000AD, I was finally starting to get somewhere with them.  It slowly reached the point that I was getting regular enough gigs – Future Shocks, mostly – that I figured I could quit my Saturday job and fund myself through Uni by writing.  Then… well: girls and grog and goth-clothing and yadda yadda.  Expensive times.  It quickly dawned on me that if you’re going to be a “pro writer” you have to have a lot more than a single iron in the fire, so I started hunting about for other avenues.  I’d recently met PJ Holden – an awesome artist who was also just starting out – and he introduced me to Gordon Rennie.  Gordon’s got a sense of humour so dry it’ll suck the water from your body at 50 paces, but he’s secretly a Lovely Bloke.  He put me onto Christian Dunn at WHM.