Titanic Tim!...Stan Lee

Tim Quinn is good for vibes!...Brian May

Genius!...Gyles Brandreth

Tim Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1953, the very same year Beryl the Peril first appeared in The Topper. Coincidence? We think not! Educated by Irish Christian Brothers whose prospectus boasted, ‘We will instill a fear of God into your child’, it was little wonder Tim chose a life in comedy.

Starting his career as a Ringboy (!) at Blackpool Tower Circus he then leapt back in time to work on BBC TV’s Good Old Days music hall series where he started writing scripts for top comedians. It was a small jump into the world of comic books where he spent a happy thirty years as scriptwriter, illustrator and editor on such noted titles as The Beano, The Dandy, Sparky, The Topper, Buster, Whoopee!, Bunty, Jackie, Dr Who Magazine, and Whizzer & Chips before heading Stateside to work for the mighty Marvel Comics Group on the world famous Spider-Man, X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.

Tim has also worked as a writer for the Guardian newspaper, editor for America’s oldest publication The Saturday Evening Post and producer for LWT’s The South Bank Show (amongst others producing a show on the history of Marvel Comics!). Today he is on a lecture tour of the Uk discussing the humour and nostalgia of comics (click here for more info), runs a management company for recording artists (click here for more info), conducts workshops on cartooning (click here) and media (click here) and dreams of the day he will be bitten by a radioactive flea so that he can finally take over the universe.

His latest comic strip is titled, ‘The Exploits of Gordon Brown’.

NEW BOOK!

Tim Quinn:  “Throughout my life I’ve

been lucky to work with the right

people...apart from on two occasions.

This book is about those two

Wrong People, both artists

with special needs.”

Howlingly funny. Musicians at their worst.

Backbeat

More details on our Books page.