The Falklands war lasted a long time and seems to have formed a backdrop for a number of cartoon strips and this one includes Sharko, El Maestro's manager. I can't remember if Benyon based him on a dude particular. However, there was one guy who could almost hypnotise him into taking on jobs that he knew were doomed. He could listen to an outline an idea that was amazingly stupid and be drawn into producing drawings or ideas for which no cheque would ever appear. "It's like Fagin, man, totally Dickens". In the 1970's Soho was littered with tiny offices with big ideas. Managers and promoters sharing corners of basements and meeting in local taverns for long beery meetings. "I'd rather have a beer in the company of insane dreams than no dreams at all". The desperate and devious had a magnetic pull.