Barrie Tomlinson

Barrie Tomlinson is a comics writer and editor who served as a group editor at IPC Magazines. His work included Roy of the Rovers, Scream! and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, alongside scripts for Death Wish and Turbo Jones. He also wrote the newspaper football strip Scorer, published in the Daily Mirror for twenty-two years.

His books Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff and Comic Book Hero recount his experiences of editing and producing British comics, documenting the people and working practices behind the weekly titles.