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FIESTA DE CIUTADELLA
On Wednesday the SheSpur and I made the epic journey from one end of the Island to the other (a whole 42 km; exhausting) to hang out, get pissed, and generally have a giggle at the first festival of...
View ArticleMy Hatings #14 (Week beginning 22nd June 2009)
A day-by-day guide to That Which Annoys, as culled from the procrastination-heavy Bileduct that is Twitter's @SISPURRIER.MONDAY) HATING OF THE DAY: Open-mouthed gum chewers. Many species generate...
View ArticleLive Interview -- THE SILVER SURFER
So... uh... here's a Thing:Panel Borders live: Gleaming the Silver Surfer As part of a fund raising night to support Resonance FM, themed around the subject of silver, Alex Fitch will be talking to...
View ArticleNYCC: 8th-10th October
A hasty AttentionFart:I will be attending the New York Comic Con on October 8th and 9th. Don't yet know if I'm doing signings or whatnot, but if you can't find me at the Marvel or Avatar booths,...
View ArticleSPURWORDS: Week 1
A little over a year ago, as a still-relatively-new visitor to Twitter (@sispurrier, fact fans), I started churning-out a daily gag called THE HATING OF THE DAY. It did exactly what it said on the tin,...
View ArticleSPURWORDS: Week 2
1) KEYBORED: the perpetual need to correct a misspelt Scandinavian place-name because your fingers Just Won’t Learn. #SPURWORDS 2) DONGLING: the physical movements of a Mafia Boss, while being hanged...
View ArticleSPURWORDS: Week 3
1)METROSEXUAL: a person unable to achieve arousal unless travelling on the Parisian underground transport system. #SPURWORDS2) DANGER VU: an irrational sense of familiarity in moments of terror,...
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MCM Expo: A Schpurdule.
Hello hello my glorious skinknuggets. Information For Your Spursphere-intersecting-interest:I, like most UK Comics-writing beerdogs, will be attending the marvellous MCM EXPO in London's docklands this...
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NUMBERCRUNCHER: A Preview
So... Here is a new and exciting Thing.What you're looking at there is a panel from a Creator Owned Project I'm putting together in assocation with the splendidly talented PJ Holden, and don't worry --...
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IN FETU
My sickly darlings...With apologies for being neglectful, I bring you free comicbook nastiness.Below is the complete, self-contained and oh-so-very creator owned short story "IN FETU", drawn by the...
View ArticleCROSSED: Wish You Were Here
Here’s Big News #1. From October 2011 Avatar Press will be presenting a brand new webcomic based in the dystopian world of Garth Ennis’s fabulously successful Crossed. Just like Avatar’s other runaway...
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Novelwatch: A SERPENT UNCOILED
This is NOVELWATCH, here are the facts.After a long time away, oh patient reader, I am back to sexpester your bookshelves and play prose-based sillybuggers with your brain. My new novel, A SERPENT...
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A SERPENT UNCOILED: News and Reviews
As we swiftly approach the launch date, here’s a roundup of news regarding A Serpent Uncoiled.1. SIGNING: The novel doesn’t technically launch until August 4th, but I’m doing an exclusive signing event...
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Exclusive Preview: Crossed & Disenchanted
Since February 2008, Avatar Press has been publishing a longform Mature Content comicboook online – in weekly instalments – entirely free of charge. It’s called Freakangels, it’s written by the mighty...
View ArticleA Serpent Uncoiled: Launch Day Review Roundup
A launch-day roundup of the reviews for A Serpent Uncoiled, if only so we have somewhere to point people while we kick-up an Internet Buzzstorm. As always any ReTweeting, cross-bloggenation and general...
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A Serpent Uncoiled: LAUNCH DAY
So! After what seems like a very long time, with a lot of hard work from a lot of very excellent people along the way, A SERPENT UNCOILED is finally released today. My publishers and I will naturally...
View ArticleLondon's Burning, Call the Engine
Like most Londoners, I’ve spent a long time over the past few nights glued to the TV. Burning buildings, muggings in the street, home-invasions, cops with dogs. For me the apotheosis of Horrible was...
View ArticleNYCC – Where To Find Me
Once again I shall be joyfully maggoting my way through the proverbial Big Apple at this year’s New York Comic Convention, held at the Jacob Javitz centre off 11th Avenue. This year I’m appearing...
View ArticleON SUCCESS
They say a thin-skinned writer is a doomed writer. I’d say you can cut-out the “doomed” bit and it still makes sense.Listen. Like the rest of you, I’ve watched with mouth agape as X-Factor hopefuls and...
View ArticleA SERPENT UNCOILED -- Mass Market Paperback Edition
My latest crime novel, A Serpent Uncoiled, is now available as a mass-market paperback and a Kindle-based e-book (for UK and US readers alike). Relevant links below.“With gargantuan literary...
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LONDON SUPER COMIC-CON: Panel Parity
I spent this last weekend attending the inaugural London Super ComicCon at the Excel Centre in London’s docklands. A great show by anyone’s standards, and despite the (requisite) doomsayers in the...
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NYCC 2012: Where I'll Be When I'm Not In The Pub
Hello folks.Usual excuses regarding poor blogttendance and whatnot. I promise to tune back in shortly with a Spursphere Update on various exciting projects in the works, not least my forthcoming stint...
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X-MEN LEGACY: Brainmakings
Ey-oop, folks.Behold: a speedy note from beyond the Spursphere. I’d make the usual apologies for the sparseness of recent enbloggenation, but since it’s entirely down to a continent-slamming workload...
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X-Men Legacy: COVERED
Folks. I've been disgustingly lucky with the covers previewed so far for the X-Men Legacy book, and I wanted to quickly showcase some of the genius pieces by our regular coverist Mike Del Mundo. The...
View ArticleREDIRECTING TRAFFIC ----->
This blog is more-or-less out of service. I may pop back from time to time, but for now most of my day-to-day blogging can be found by making clicky below:SIMON SPURRIER'S TUMBLR WORKBLOG.
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