Tim Quinn was born in Liverpool in1953, the very same year Beryl the Peril first appeared in The Topper.Coincidence? We think not! Educated by Irish Christian Brothers whoseprospectus boasted, ‘We will instill a fear of God into your child’, it was littlewonder Tim chose a life in entertainment.Starting his career as a clown atBlackpool Tower Circus he then leapt back in time to work on BBC TV’s Good OldDays music hall series where he started writing scripts for top comedians. Itwas a small jump into the world of comic books where he spent many happy yearsas scriptwriter, illustrator and editor on such noted titles as The Beano, TheDandy, Sparky, The Topper, Buster, Whoopee!, Bunty, Jackie, Dr Who Magazine,and Whizzer & Chips before heading Stateside to work for the mighty MarvelComics Group on the world famous Spider-Man, X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.Tim has also worked as a writer forthe Guardian newspaper, editor for America’s oldest publication The SaturdayEvening Post and producer for LWT’s The South Bank Show (amongst othersproducing a show on the history of Marvel Comics!).Today he is on a lecture tour ofthe UK discussing the humour and nostalgia of comics, runs a management companyfor recording artists, conducts workshops on cartooning and literacy, createsway too many charitable projects, and dreams of the day he will be bitten by aradioactive giraffe so that he can finally take over the universe.
