CREED WIDEN

Idea for a novel?

An ad man realises that the quickest way to get rich is to start a religion and so teams up with a public opinion specialist to create the most appealing belief system. However, as their new religion develops, the founder starts to claim that the god they have invented is now talking to him, and the beliefs he's espousing get increasingly less orthodox. And increasingly schismatic, until the new followers rise up and martyr him. Which is when things really get going. To make a profit, you need to make a prophet.

BISCUIT CHIMPANZEE

Idea for a comic book?

A reverse Tarzan. Nazrat. A nineteenth century big game hunter brings a baby chimpanzee back to Britain and gives it to his sweetheart before going back to Africa. The chimp is brought up in the heart of the British aristocracy, living a luxurious life and learning refined manners. When the big game hunter returns, he is disgusted to discover this biscuit eating, tea swilling ape but the ape escapes him and the two become locked in a desperate hunt across Victorian London as the chimp must relearn his ape aptitude to beat the hunter.