Comic Book Babylon event in Brighton

By John Freeman on 26 February 2014

Author Tim Pilcher will be hosting an event to romote his book Comic Book Babylon in May, as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.

Comic Book Babylon is the candid and amusing odyssey of one comic fan’s quest to get his dream job and becoming the first British member of the DC editorial staff. Join the author Tim, who worked for Vertigo UK, as he takes you through the debauchery and excess of publishing life in the 90s and encounters with Jonathan Ross, The Spice Girls, Blur, Adam Ant, Grant Morrison, Jamie Hewlett, Paul Gambaccini and many more.

• More info here. Brighton Fringe Box Office: 01273 917272

• Comic Book Babylon by Tim Pilcher is currently on sale from OK Comics, Leeds, Orbital Comics, Gosh! and The Cartoon Museum in London; and Dave’s Comics in Brighton. If you contact Tim via the book’s Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/ComicBookBabylonKickstarter – he’ll tell you how you can order a copy direct from him

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.