Simon Spurrier
Simon Spurrier is a British comics writer, who has previously worked as a cook, a bookseller and an art director for the BBC.
Getting his start in comics with the British small press, he went on to write his own series for 2000 AD, like Lobster Random, Bec & Kawl, The Simping Detective and Harry Kipling, as well as a number of stories for the flagship character Judge Dredd. In recent years he has broken into the American comic book industry, writing mainly for Marvel Comics.
Simon has also written a number of novels, initially on other people's properties but in 2006 he signed a two-book contract with Hodder Headline, the first of which was 2007's Contract and the second was 2011's A Serpent Uncoiled.
Biography
He writes mainly for the British comic 2000 AD but has also written comic-strips for the anthology Warhammer Monthly,[1] 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. In May 2006 he signed a two-book contract with Hodder Headline. The first novel, a "post-pulp" occult-crime-comedy, is titled Contract. A limited edition hardback was released in May 2007, and the mass-market paperback is published on the 4th October 2007.
Recently he has created Gutsville with Frazer Irving[2][3] and Silver Surfer: In Thy Name.[4][5]
Recent projects include more work for Marvel like Ghost Rider Annual #2,[6] the one-shot "Wolverine: Dangerous Game,"[7] Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider mini-series with Javier Saltares,[8][9][10] "Conqueror" a newuniversal one-shot and Punisher War Journal Annual #1.[11] He also wrote a short story for Dark Horse Presents called "In Fetu."[12]
Bibliography
Comics
Comics work includes:
- Mega-City One:
- "The Burning Red" (with PJ Holden, in Zarjaz vol. 1 #1, 2001)
- "Catching the Rads" (with Darren Chandler, in Zarjaz vol. 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)
- "Hacked" (with Jon Davis-Hunt, in 2000 AD #1754, 2011)
- 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)
- 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)
- "The Forget-Me-Knot" (in 2000 AD #1600-, 2008)
- 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)
- 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 by Lawrence Campbell and inks by Kris Justice, in 2000 AD #1482, 2006)
- "Splashdown" (with pencils by Laurence Campbell and inks by Kris Justice, in Judge Dredd Megazine #245, 2006)
- "Neoweirdies" (with Paul Marshall, in 2000 AD #1496-1498, 2006)
- "Versus" (with Peter Doherty, in 2000 AD #1499, 2006)
- "Gutshot" (with Anthony Williams/Rob Taylor, in 2000 AD #1708, October 2010)
- "The Beast in the Bay" (with Patrick Goddard, in 2000 AD #1709, November 2010)
- 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) [13]
- 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 #1507-1517, 2006)
- The Angel Gang: "Before they wuz dead" (with Steve Roberts, in Judge Dredd Megazine #258-ongoing, 2007)
- Gutsville (with Frazer Irving, Image, 2007, ongoing)
- Silver Surfer: In Thy Name (with Tan Eng Huat, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, November 2007)
- The Vort (as G. Powell, with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1589-1596, 2008)
- "Wolverine: Dangerous Game” (with Ben Oliver, one-shot, Marvel Comics, June 2008}
- newuniversal: "Conqueror" (with Eric Nguyen, one-shot, Marvel Comics, October 2008)
- Punisher War Journal Annual #1 (with Werther Dell’Edera, Marvel Comics, November 2008)
- "The One Who Got Away" (with Paul Davidson, in Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3, Marvel Comics, October 2009)
- "The Ghost of Asteroid M" (with Leonard Kirk, in Nation X #1, February 2010)
- "In Fetu" (with Christopher Mitten, in Dark Horse Presents, Dark Horse Comics, 2010)
- X-Men: Blind Science (with Paul Davidson/Francis Portela, one-shot, Marvel Comics, July 2010)
- X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - Smoke and Blood (with Gabriel Hernandez Walta, one-shot, Marvel Comics, November 2010)
Novels
He has written a number of Warhammer 40,000 and 2000 AD-related novels:
As well as two crime novels:
- Contract (Headline Book Publishing, October 2007, ISBN 978-0-7553-3590-9)
- A Serpent Uncoiled (Headline Book Publishing, August 2011, ISBN 978-0-7553-3592-3)
Awards
Notes
- ^ Si Spurrier Warhammer Q&A by Matt Badham, December 11, 2009
- ^ No Gutsville, No Glory, Publishers Weekly, May 29, 2007
- ^ The Belly of the Beast, Talking Gutsville With Spurrier and irving, The Pulse, Comicon, June 4, 2007
- ^ WW Chicago: Si Spurrier on Silver Surfer: In Thy Name, August 10, 2007, Newsarama
- ^ Spurrier Talks "The Silver Surfer: In Thy Name", August 10, 2007, Comic Book Resources
- ^ Mercy Rule: Spurrier talks “Ghost Rider Annual” #2, Comic Book Resources, May, 2008
- ^ Spurrier talks “Wolverine: Dangerous Game”, Comic Book Resources, June 3, 2008
- ^ WWC: Simon Spurrier & Javier Saltares Tackle Danny Ketch, Newsarama, June 27, 2008
- ^ WW Chicago: Spurrier on “Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider”, Comic Book Resources, June 29, 2008
- ^ Spurrier's Spirited Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider, Comicon, October 13, 2008
- ^ UTTERLY MENTAL: Spurrier talks Punisher War Journal Annual, Comic Book Resources, September 24, 2008
- ^ The Big Bad Wolf (March 19, 2010). "In Fetu interview with Simon Spurrier". Comic Monsters. http://www.comicmonsters.com/features-1099-In_Fetu_interview_with_Simon_Spurrier.html. Retrieved March 24, 2010.
- ^ B E N E A T H
References
External links
Interviews
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