Tim Pilcher is a renowned pop culture expert with a career spanning over 25 years in the comics industry. Initially, he started as an assistant editor at DC Comics' Vertigo imprint in London, working on groundbreaking titles such as The Extremist, Enigma, Face, The Mystery Play, Rogan Gosh, and Kill Your Boyfriend.
In 1992, he co-founded the bi-lingual comics publishing house, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux, with Paul Peart, Brad Brooks, Dylan Horrocks, and others. They published critically acclaimed one-off graphic novels in English and French, including White Death, The Malice Family, Aunt Connie and the Plague of Beards, and the first appearance of Fred the Clown.
Pilcher has written comics for the BBC, DeAgostini, Weldon Owen, and the Young Telegraph, and has worked for numerous book publishers, including Panini, Penguin Children's Books, Ilex Press, and Dorling Kindersley.
As a journalist, he has written for Deadline, Comic World, Tripwire, Education Today, Comics Forum, Criminal Justice Matters, and G-Spot Magazine, as well as Star Trek Magazine. He became an associate editor at Comics International, the UK's then-only comic book trade paper, alongside Dez Skinn.
Pilcher has written numerous books on comics, including The Complete Cartooning Course and The Essential Guide to World Comics with Brad Brooks. He has also contributed to several other books, including Comix: The Underground Revolution, 500 Comic Book Action Heroes, The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide, 500 Essential Graphic Novels, and War Comics: A Graphic History.
His Erotic Comics: A Graphic History Volumes 1 & 2 were the first serious survey of this genre in over 20 years and were translated into French, German, Polish, and Czech. The books were also finalists in the 2010 UK Erotic Awards.
Pilcher regularly gives talks on various subjects, including Tijuana Bibles, Indian comics, and the history of Ecstasy. He is the UK Liaison for Humanoids and the Chair of The Comic Book Alliance, a not-for-profit organization promoting graphic novels, webcomics, and sequential art.
He occasionally updates his blog, Sex, Drugs and Comic Books, and has written several non-comic related books, including e: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy, Spliffs 2 & 3, and The Cannabis Cookbook. Pilcher lives in Brighton, England.
In 2013, he released his memoir, Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs and Comics, which is a memoir of his time working at Vertigo UK.
