Comic-Con is so legendary, so a great thrill to be invited along.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies.

It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.

I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.