'As a character, the Bird God taps into a mystical, less logical aspect to my characters' universe. Is he the John the Baptist to YOD's Jesus?'

JJ, February 2008

The Bird God was designed to celebrate the release of James' book, ‘Selected Drawings’. The character was lifted and developed directly from its pages.

'The Bird God figure is interesting because the initial inspiration for the toy came directly from a drawing, rather than emerging as an idea that is then shaped and refined by the drawing process. The character that became Bird God had been lurking in the background of my drawings for several years without ever exactly defining itself as a character. In the process of compiling my book, Selected Drawings, I noticed just how omnipresent he had become in my work.'