Jack in the Box [Paperback]

Now with the experiment underway, his sense of the real world has been left terrifyingly distorted and sterile.

The other child (Amelia) was brought up in the company of a tribe of loving pink apes, and released back into the real world at the age of 16. Her view of the world in some ways stranger and more subverted than Jack's, as she struggles to shake off the affects of the love and colour of her simian guardians' upbringing.

Are men simply products of their environment? This theory will be put to the test when the world's loneliest boy meets the girl with the biggest heart... the results will not be black and white.

Martin was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, but raised in Clacton, Essex. Some of his earliest memories involve comics, whether it's reading the Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips and Buster, or the second hand Superman comics his nan used to buy him.

This early dalliance with the media led to an unhealthily long obsession as he moved onto titles such as Eagle, Battle and then eventually reading his brother's copies of 2000ad. Through this he discovered Quality Comics reprints of Judge Dredd, and then specialist comic shops. He's been broke ever since.

A few years ago, he started working in Chelmsford where he met Tony Wicks. They quickly found they both loved comics and began sharing their recent and past purchases.

Other stuff happened in between, but the long and short of it is they felt the same way about what they wanted from comics and decided to work together on their ideas.

Tony Wicks, comics artist, letterer, and writer of the Jack in the Box story:

Tony was born in Chelmsford, and after living in a variety of places, including Southampton, Brighouse, Spain and Gibraltar, returned to Chelmsford where he lives to this day.

He began drawing at the age of six, when he discovered 'The Ecology & Evolution of the Dinosaurs' in his parents' book shelf, copying every dinosaur faithfully in pencil. Then came comics, starting with 1970's Marvel (Captain Britain, Hulk, Luke Cage, Spiderman etc) Battle Picture Weekly, Whoopee, Roy of the Rovers, 2000ad and at the end of his stint as a copyist, 1980's DC Comics.

At the age of 12 he began creating his own superhero comics. In the late 80's Tony hooked up with the Cartoon Workshop, as run by V For Vendetta's David Lloyd, where he came up with the original concept for Jack in the Box, an unfinished strip that David Lloyd clearly remembered when Tony met him at the Bristol Comics Expo 2007.

In the late 90's, Tony met Martin at work, and their sharing of their comics collections developed into a creative partnership in 2005. After buying an Intuous Wacom 3 digital tablet, Tony's first self-published project came about: 'Last of the Chickenheads'. Jack in the Box was reworked soon after.

Tony is now working constantly with Martin, drawing to his scripts and constantly co-creating ideas for new joint projects.