Spencer_Haze

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Back in 2000 I came up with the idea of drawing and writing a comic strip for Channel 4s motoring website. It featured a private eye from 1973 who got into a scrap and was thrown into a freezer only be revived 27 years later. Five panels appeared each week on the website for several months and it got a cult following - a small one. However, plenty of people agreed with me that taking a hard living no-nonsense bloke from the 70s and pitching him into the noughties was a good idea. He had the dress sense of Jason King, but the no-nonsense approach of Jack Regan. Add classic cars and music into the mix and you have a winner.

Now because I was writing this for a motoring website everything was aimed at the car enthusiast. Even so I wanted to make the reader think a bit, so Spencer Haze had been put in a freezer for a reason and once defrosted had scores to settle and conspiracies to unravel. That is why I gave Spencer a female guide (Saffron) to this new planet he has landed on, and that is a phrase used in the first few frames of the story. Add into the mix our hero being talked at by a TV and drifting back to 1973 to make sense of the story it is not surprising that I started to see parallels between this story and the BBCs Life on Mars. I had turned my cartoon strip into a TV script an submitted it to the BBC in 2001. When the show appeared in 2006, I had several people ask me if it had anything to do with me as the themes were so similar.

Plenty have asked to see the original drawings and although the quality is patchy and the conspiracy story only partially developed here they all are...click the start slideshow button

Spencer Haze

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