Simon Spurrier

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Simon Spurrier is a British comics writer, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller and an art director for the BBC.

He writes mainly for the British comic 2000 AD but has also written comic-strips for the anthology Warhammer Monthly, as well as contributing written articles, stories and reviews to the Judge Dredd Megazine. He is the creator of Lobster Random (with Carl Critchlow), The Simping Detective (with Frazer Irving), From Grace (also with Irving), Zancudo (a belated follow-up to Ant Wars) with Cam Kennedy and Bec & Kawl (with Steve Roberts).

Spurrier has done a number of work for hire books, writing one 2000 AD themed novel for Black Flame press, and three science fiction novels for the Black Library, as well as an upcoming book for Abaddon Books. He has recently signed a two book contract with Hodder Headline, the first book is provisionally entitled Contract and will be "Post-Pulp Crime".

He is currently working on Gutsville with Frazer Irving and a new series, Chiaroscuro, started in Prog 1507.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Comics 1.2 Novels 2 Awards 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Comics

Comics work includes:

• Mega-City One:
  • "The Burning Red" (with PJ Holden, in Zarjaz volume 1 #1, 2001)
  • "Catching the Rads" (with Darren Chandler, in Zarjaz volume 1 #1, 2001)

• Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • "Old Red" (with Staz Johnson, in 2000 AD #1232, 2001)
  • "Given to Fly" (with Cam Smith, in 2000 AD #1257, 2001)
  • "Alpha Team" (with PJ Holden, in 2000 AD #1262)
  • "Sex Machine" (with Boo Cook, in 2000 AD #1264)
  • "Spare Parts" (with Richard Elson, in 2000 AD #1267)
  • "Hormones" (with Nigel Raynor, in 2000 AD #1279, 2002)
  • "Celestial Bodies" (with Shaun Bryan, in 2000 AD #1294, 2002)
  • "Tadfraggers" (with Gary Crutchley, in 2000 AD #1369, 2003)

• Tharg's Terror Tales: "Snacks of Doom" (with Neil Edwards, in 2000 AD #1282, 2002)

• Bec & Kawl (with Steve Roberts):
  • "and the Mystical Mentalist Menace!" (in 2000 AD #1290-1291, 2002)
  • "Beccy Miller's Diary" (in 2000 AD #1292-1293, 2002)
  • "Enlightenment" (in 2000 AD #1327, 2003)
  • "eeevil.com" (in 2000 AD #1328-1330, 2003)
  • "Pest Control" (in 2000 AD #1351-1354, 2003)
  • "Toothache" (in 2000 AD #1383-1386, 2004)
  • "Hell To Pay" (in 2000 AD #1401-1404, 2004)
  • "Attack of the Cones" (in 2000 AD #1437-1440, 2005)
  • "Freakshow" (in 2000 AD #1477-1481, 2006)

• The Scrap (with Richard Elson, in 2000 AD #1308-1312, 2002)

• Past Imperfect:
  • "Red Man Rising" (with Ian Richardson, in 2000 AD #1314, 2002)
  • "Warts 'n all" (with David Roach, in 2000 AD #1317, 2002)

• Lobster Random (with Carl Critchlow):
  • "No Gain, No Pain" (in 2000 AD #1342-1349, 2003 ISBN 1-904265-63-4)
  • "Tooth and Claw" (in 2000 AD #1411-1419, 2004)
  • "The Agony & The Ecstasy" (in 2000 AD #1482-1490, 2006)

• From Grace (with Frazer Irving, in 2000 AD #1357-1361, 2003)

• One-Off: "Work Experience" (with Steve Roberts, in 2000 AD #1403-1407, 2003)

• The Simping Detective (with Frazer Irving):
  • "Crystal Blue" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #221-223, 2004)
  • "Innocence: A Broad" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #224-226, 2004)
  • "Dorks of War" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #227, 2004)
  • "Playing Futsie" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #234-236, 2005)
  • "Fifteen" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #237, 2005)
  • "Petty Crimes" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #238-239, 2005)

• The Dark Judges: "Judge Fear's Big Day Out" (with Cam Smith, in Judge Dredd Megazine #224, 2004)

• Zancudo (with Cam Kennedy, in Judge Dredd Megazine #231-233, 2005)

• Daemonifuge: Heretic Saint (with co-writers: Gordon Rennie and Jim Campbell, Art: Kev Walker, Karl Richardson, Chris Quilliams and Tim Trevellion; Black Library, 2005 ISBN 1-84416-251-6)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Cursed Earth Rules" (with John Ridgway, in Judge Dredd Megazine #236, 2005)
  • "In the Stomm" (with Boo Cook, in Judge Dredd Megazine #236, 2005)
  • "Dominoes" (with pencils: Lawrence Cambell; Inks: Kris Justice, in 2000AD #1482, 2006)
  • "Splashdown" (with pencils: Laurence Campbell; Inks: Kris Justice, in Judge Dredd Megazine #245, 2006)
  • "Neoweirdies" (with Paul Marshall, in 2000AD #1496-1498, 2006)
  • "Versus" (with Peter Doherty, in 2000AD #1499, 2006)

• Harry Kipling (with Boo Cook):
  • "Prologue" (in 2000 AD #1476, 2006)
  • "Mad Gods & Englishmen" (in 2000 AD #1481-1483, 2006)
  • "Whetting the Whistle" (in 2000AD #1492-1493, 2006)
  • "Something for Nothing" (in 2000AD #1497-1499, 2006)
  • "The Hitman and Hermoth" (in 2000AD #1509-ongoing, 2006)

• Beneath (with Frazer Irving, in The Telegraph Magazine 2006-02) [1]

• London Falling (with Lee Garbett, in 2000 AD #1491-1495, 2006)

• Tales From the Black Museum: "Ruddler's Cuddlers" (with Graham Manley, in Judge Dredd Megazine #246, 2006)

• Chiaroscuro (with Smudge, in 2000 AD #1507-ongoing, 2006)

• Gutsville (with Frazer Irving, Image, 2007, forthcoming)

[edit] Novels

He has written a number of Warhammer 40,000 and 2000 AD-related novels:

• Fire Warrior (Black Library, 2003 ISBN 1-84416-010-6)
• Strontium Dog: Prophet Margin (Black Flame, 2004 ISBN 1-84416-134-X)
• Lord of the Night (Black Library, 2005 ISBN 1-84416-157-9)
• Xenology (Black Library, 2006 ISBN 1-84416-010-6)
• The Afterblight Chronicles: The Culled (Abaddon Books, August 2006 ISBN 1-905437-01-3)

[edit] Awards

• 2002, nominated for National Comics Awards: Best New Talent

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD profile
• Simon Spurrier at the Internet Movie Database
• Simon Spurrier at MySpace
• 2003 interview with 2000ADReview