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Colquhoun, veteran British artist on "Charley's War" in Battle weekly, discusses his thirty-year career from post-war beginnings at Amalgamated Press through long stints on Lion and Roy of the Rovers to his current celebrated work. He reflects on the difficulty of depicting WWI trench warfare in comics form, the liberalizing then re-tightening of violence standards in British weeklies (citing the influence of films like Jaws on Battle and Action), and laments that Cockney dialect is now censored from Charley's speech despite Pat Mills writing it authentically. He credits Alex Raymond as his greatest artistic influence and notes that organized comics fandom is a recent and welcome discovery for him.