Tim Pilcher is a comic book expert, historian, journalist, and lecturer. He has worked as an assistant editor at DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, and has written comic strips for the BBC, DeAgostini, Weldon Owen, and the Young Telegraph . As a journalist he has written for Deadline , Comic World , Tripwire , Education Today , Comics Forum , and Criminal Justice Matters . He was also associate editor of Comics International . He has written numerous books on comics including The Complete Cartooning Course and The Essential Guide to World Comics with Brad Brooks and Erotic Comics: A Graphic History Volumes 1 & 2 , which were finalists in the UK Erotic Awards 2010 for Publication of the Year. He has also contributed to numerous other books including, Comix: The Underground Revolution , 500 Comicbook Action Heroes,   The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide (1st Edition), 500 Essential Graphic Novels and War Comics: A Graphic History . He is a co-founder and current Chair of The Comic Book Alliance, "The voice of the British comics industry.".