Tim Pilcher - Q and A

Where do you live?
Brighton, the coolest place in the UK.

What is your favourite comic series?
Don’t have just one. All the obvious, Watchmen, Dark Knight 1 AND 2, Preacher,
Hitman, Hellblazer occasionally

What is your favourite book?
Again no one in particularly, Catcher in the Rye, Any Will Self or Martin Amis,

Who is your favourite artist?
Fine art: Goya, George Petty, Eric Stanton
Comics: Duncan Fegredo, Brendan McCarthy, Brian Bolland,

What music do you like to listen to?
At the moment: The Streets, Joss Stone, Amy Frank, Chemical Brothers, Norman Cook

What are your favourite films?
Leon, Apocalypse Now, True Romance, The Matrix,

Is there one painting that inspires you? And how?

When and where were you happiest?
At the births of my two children.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Surrounded by true loving friends and family having a great time in the sun.

What is your greatest fear?
Filling in Questionnaires

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Actually filling in questionnaires

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Racism, bigotry, ignorance and sending out questionnaires.

What is your greatest extravagance?
Computers, Internet porn and drugs.

What makes you depressed?
Computer crashes, strange rashes and comedowns.

What is your most unappealing habit?
Wiping my nose with my hand in an upward fashion. Bugs people apparently.
And silently farting in lifts.

What is your favourite fantasy?
Being trapped in a lift after a big curry with George W. Bush.
It is possible to kill someone with methane.

For what cause would you die?
My kid’s lives.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Had a few.

Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?
In the past. Have learnt since then not to bandy such words around freely.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

How do you relax?
I Fill in questionnaires

What keeps you awake at night?
Filling in questionnaires

How would you like to die?
Screaming in agony in a long painful prolonged way with fear permeating every pore of my body.

How would you like to be remembered?
I’d like to achieve immortality by not dying.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
No matter what plans you make, life has other ideas.
Just roll with the punches and enjoy the ride.

What does the House of RA mean to you?
A chance to have a group of like-minded creators to act as a sounding
board and hopefully produce some quality product. Plus, hopefully they
can act as an agency to get me published, as I’m too lazy to do the groundwork.

Why did you want to become a writer?
Beats International Sales and Marketing. Had to do something creative
as my other jobs were killing my soul. Don’t care what I write (fiction, non-fiction,
TV scripts, comics, etc) as long as I write.

Isn’t about time you grew up?
Isn’t it time you stopped asking facile questions?

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