Tim Finn is a film producer, comics retailer, and animation historian living near Boston.

Tim is at last wrapping up his 25-years-in-the-making history on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Based on nearly 300 interviews with toy designers, VPs, marketers, animation writers, film directors, and comic book artists, and having cataloged over 1,000 rare pieces of artwork and photography, this book will be a celebration of the brand, and accessible to hard-core and casual fans.

Tim is Executive Producer of Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA, a feature-length documentary on the innovative studio that forever changed animation in the 1940s and 1950s. Tim also initiated, art directed, and edited a 4-issue comic book miniseries reuniting the creative team of Larry Hama and M.D. “Doc” Bright, a super-hero yarn called The Center Holds, to be published in 2026.

Along with producer/writers Nick Nadel and Kevin Maher, Tim is EP at Atomic Abe, a popular YouTube channel featuring thoughtfully researched and humorous video essays on television and film.

For 17 years, Tim taught animation, animation history, and drawing at Lesley Art + Design. Tim has also written about comics and G.I. Joe for various websites, and moderated panels at various comic book conventions. His undergraduate thesis film Limboscape played at twenty film festivals, while a follow-up called CYMoKay screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. For two years at Soup2Nuts, Tim storyboarded and animated for Home Movies (Adult Swim) and Hey Monie (BET). Tim’s essay on independent filmmaker Bill Plympton was published in the ANIMATOR festival catalog in Poznan, Poland, and Tim acted as Animation Consultant on 13 DVD Transformers and G.I. Joe boxed sets for Rhino Home Video.

Tim also co-hosts the podcast Talking Joe, with new episodes posted each Thursday. He also owns and operates Hub Comics, a brick and mortar shop that offers Somerville, MA the finest in single issues, alternative and small-press minicomics, and graphic novels. He’s there two or three days a week, stop by and say hello.