Friday 22nd October 2010

ARGH! Comic Book History Tour and Cartoon Workshop

Writer and Comic Book Editor Tim Quinn conducts this unique workshop in cartooning - including figure drawing, emotion, storytelling in pictures, character and story creation, and comic book history.  If you love to draw or just want to visit the world of comics/cartoons then you will have a whale of a time with the man who personally knows Beryl the Peril, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Korky the Cat, the Incredible Hulk and so many more.

Just bring a pencil, paper and something to lean on…… Tim will do the rest!

Evening Presentation (time tbc)

Become part of this unique method of visual storytelling.

Biography

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 instil a fear of God into your child’, it was little wonder Tim chose a life in comedy.Starting his career as a Ring boy (!) 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 runs a management company for recording artists, 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’.

Day Time Workshop (time tbc) - £4.50 per head
Evening Presentation (time tbc) - £8 Adults, £7 Concessions, £6 Child