Nabil Shaban as "The Phantom Knickers-Knicker" in 1976

I was cast as a villain nearly ten years before my first "bad guy" appearance in Doctor Who...in a cartoon comic strip my friend, Ham Khan used to draw for the University of Surrey (Guildford, england) students weekly newspaper "Bare Facts", when we were both students in 1976.

Ham and I arrived at university at the same time and we were on the same boring combined honours degree course, economics, Sociology and Statistics. (well, sociology was okay, but economics and statistics was deadly...fine if you had aspirations to be a monetarist capitalist, set on screwing and ruining the planet)During our first year, we did no work and enjoyed ourselves causing anarchy.

I was sub-editor of the newspaper and when I saw what a talented artist Ham was, and I wanted a humourous comic strip to take the piss out of the university and the boring students (already British students were becoming reactionary, mindless and unimaginative...however, today, they totally zomboid...like the rest of the British population), I asked Ham if he would resurrect a previous comic superhero called "Super Surrey Student" who had originally been created by another Surrey student called Harry Tatham (who later became a co-star with Ham in "The Alien who lived in the Sheds). Harry wasn't interested in continuing his cartoon for the newspaper, so Ham agreed.

Anyway, here is the episode which involves me as the character Phantom Knickers-Knicker, an arch-enemy of the Surry Super Hero.

Thirty years later (2007), Ham is now an internationally-acclaimed cartoonist, with his humourous artwork gracing the pages of newspapers, magazines and periodicals from Argentina, spain, the USA and Britain. visit his website to see and learn more about his current work.

Ham at the Journal of Silly

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