The Enigma first appeared in a cartoon in 1970 with a worm called ‘worm’ and a crow called ‘Openheimer’. His role was to be the passive and objective outsider - viewing and commenting on the daily strife between Worm and Openheimer. The cartoon enjoyed some success in counter culture publications and was rejected in a stylish, ‘round robin way’ by Private Eye, Punch, The Spectator and the Evening Standard who all recommended that I try the other publications.
Thirty years later he has reappeared in my work, in so many forms and shades, tones and lights that there seems no end to his variation.