First question:  Did you have much to do with the creation of Arcade, or were you just an "art robot" when he first appeared? (Note:  I'm working from memory here, but I seem to recall Arcade's first appearance occurring in a Marvel Team-Up issue that you drew, followed by his appearance in the X-Men after that)

Second question:  Have you ever considered  Arcade to be somewhat analagous to DC's Joker (albeit with slightly different motivations)? 

Arade first struck me as being somewhat analagous to the Toyman in many ways, but Mark Hamill was the voice actor for Arcade in the PC game Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and Hamill's Arcade sounds almost EXACTLY like his version of the Joker from the animated Dini/Timm DCU productions.  Given that, I was struck for the first time with the notion of Arcade as just another "multiverse" iteration of the Joker . . . different circumstances, different method of operation, but in many ways essentially the same character (homicidal tendencies, love of clowns/pranks/games, definitely in it for the money, etc.).

Has anybody else noticed this similarity between the Joker and Arcade previously?

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(2) Believe it or not, the "model" for Arcade was Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange". (Clearly we were more successful disguising this than with Kitty's "alien" encounter!)

Has anybody else noticed this similarity between the Joker and Arcade previously?

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I actually thought there was a similarity between Arcade and the Jester.

In DD 137, the Jester puts DD through a type of Murder World ordeal.  This was before Arcade's appearance in MTU.