Writer, editor, and manager, Tim Quinn was born in Liverpool, England. He started his career as a clown at Blackpool Tower Circus before working on BBC TV\u2019s Good Old Days music hall series where he wrote scripts for top comedians. It was a small jump from there into the world of comic books where he spent many happy years as a scriptwriter on such noted UK titles as The Beano, The Dandy, Sparky, The Topper, Buster, Whoopee!, Bunty, Jackie, Dr Who Magazine, and Whizzer & Chips before heading to the United States to work for the mighty Marvel Comics Group as both editor and Head of Special Projects.\xa0
Through those years he also produced many daily newspaper comic strips and interviews with such names as Klaus Voormann, Derek Taylor, Sir Tim Rice, Jeffrey Archer, Willy Russell, Eddie Izzard, Sierra Boggess, and Chyler Leigh.
Tim has worked as a writer for the Guardian newspaper, as well as editor for America\u2019s oldest publication, The Saturday Evening Post, and as producer for LWT\u2019s The South Bank Show TV documentary series \u2013 that included among others, a show on the history of Marvel Comics!\xa0
For many years Tim ran a publishing company with his wife Jane and Gillian Baverstock, the elder daughter of noted children\u2019s author, Enid Blyton.
Additionally, Tim and Jane ran Mighty Quinn Management, as agents and managers to many musicians while putting on huge charity shows featuring members of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.\xa0
These days, Tim\u2019s the Editor-in-Chief for the Merseyside charity, Liverpool Heartbeat, creating literacy-based comic books for schools across the region.\xa0
He\u2019s also produced books for New Haven Publishing, who just released The Jolly Bloodbath, a piratical novel for children written by The Brothers Quinn, Tim and his younger brother, Jason, who\u2019s a well-known comic book writer. Also, look for Tim\u2019s autobiography, Argh, also from New Haven Publishing.