But also there are many parallels and connections and references all through my life which all can be traced back to Tintin. My name: Siege is really just a phonetic word of my initials, shortened. CJ, just the first syllable = "siege" and at some point in 1982 or so I realized that I could spell it like the word siege. So I started signing my cartoons. The creator of Tintin George Remi use the same device- I hadn't realized that for years, but in Belgium and France you say your initials backwards from what Americans are used to. His initials, said in that tradition are not GR, they are RG. And when you say RG in French you get Herge. Years later I was sort of struck by the strange parallel. And I didn't make it up: siege was Jonathan's nickname for me. And so it's funny after Johnson I spent untold hours poring over the books that were it would have worked out that way.

The cover of the band's first record was a cartoon which I had drawn. We call it the man and the dog – and there really isn't any name other than that. Tintin and snowy are a boy and a dog. I hadn't noted the parallel until years later.