About the only claim to fame I have in my life is that I once had a 2000AD character named after me. I only lasted for 8 issues and was killed, but nevertheless!
Long story but an old mate of mine was starting to get a foothold as a comics writer (he’s really, really big now) and had been approached by IPC to do something. They wanted him to re-use one of their old licences, but he’d had a diet of American comics all his life and wasn’t big on 2000AD. Whereas I (up until about 1993 anyway) was an avid collector and enthusiast.
Anyway, the truncated version is that he revamped Robo-Hunter in 1990, and for 8 progs he had a “sidekick” named after me until I got wasted.
I will always be grateful to him 🙂