 He was co-editor of the fanzine "Comic Media", ran comic marts and imported American comics into the UK.In the mid-70s, he ran a shop selling imported US comics in London's Notting Hill.In the mid-1970s, after finishing a post-graduate course at film school, Landau got his break when he went to the offices of science-fiction comic "2000 AD" to interview then-editor Pat Mills for "Comic Media News" (a spin off from "Comic Media").