He's been a presence in my life since I was a small boy who read a short story of his in a comic annual. The story was called Plumstone's Soap Symphony, about a musician who blew soap bubbles out of his tuba which would emit a note when they burst. The drawings with it were excellent. When trad jazz took over my life in my late teens, there was Humph, and a bunch of us College jazz musos got to jam with him on stage in Aberystwyth in the early 60s. His radio programs - both jazz and comedy - were an essential part of my life's wallpaper. He didn't know it, but he was a lifelong friend.
I'm really going to miss him.
Ray