Driving to work one day and thinking about the prospect of creating a fanzine for those idiosyncratic iconoclasts of comic art I thought to myself, Crikey!! What a great idea. And the word summed up my mood and the project perfectly.

I soon found a Super Team of Crikey! Chums willing to dedicate their lives to spreading the word.

Tom Sweetman was first to join and his literary take on feature ideas immediately raised the ante. Having a second writer on board was just what the project needed - and then to cap it all, Tom became a fully-fledged member of the publishing team. Suddenly it wasn't just me against the world.

Tom and I quickly worked out that we'd need a cover and so we went to an old chum who I had worked with in the world of professional comics - the Do-Do Man himself, Mike Kazybrid. When Mike sent us his cover rough it just blew us away and made Crikey! a real, tangible publication.

The next thing to get was a suitable logo. Something so amazing that no human eye could pass it by without stopping and thinking; Crikey! What's that? Something over the top. Something that said Britishness with a strong sense of nostalgia married to a cool modern line.

That's what I said to Joe Matthews, another artist mate of mine. Over a weekend he designed the logo that attracted you dear reader. Nice one, Joe.

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