[1] Shaw met comics writer and editor Pat Mills at IPC and the duo worked together to launch Jinty in 1974.
Shaw gave up editorship of Misty and his staff job at Fleetway in 1979 to go freelance and travel with his young family.
They moved to Castelldefels near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, alongside many of the Spanish artists who had worked on the same comics.
Shaw had suffered from ulcerative colitis since the age of twelve and died of cancer on 4 December 1984, a day before his thirty-eighth birthday.
Based on his left-wing politics and interests in science fiction, literature and mythology, he is the likely author of many other girls’ comics stories that combine similar themes.