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Simon Spurrier

  • Contributor, CBR
  • Founder, Backengine
London
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Simon Spurrier on The Best Crime Comics, and Why We Need More Crossover Readers

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By Simon Spurrier
| CrimeReads
It’s a matter of some frustration, to those of us who love both, that prose novels and graphic novels are held to be so radically unalike. Article continues after advertisement I’ve written extensively in both media, and can’t deny the differences are many and deep. Fandoms rarely cross the rails. Those who’ve read and enjoyed my crime novels (Contract, A Serpent Uncoiled) only occasionally find their way to my comics (Coda, The Spire, Damn Them All) and vice versa.
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FINAL FLASH: AN ANNOUNCEMENT — SIMON SPURRIER

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By Simon Spurrier
| simonspurrier.com
Part of the difficulty, skill and joy of writing characters in a shared universe is finding that elemental thing - that core, elegant quiddity - that makes you feel the same thrill, the same devotion, that the most fervent fans have felt every New Comicbook Day for decades. And yet it can’t (or at least, shouldn’t) be to simply keep doing more of the same. That way lies stagnation, diminishing returns; the faint whiff of fan fiction.
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THE VOICE SAID KILL — SIMON SPURRIER

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By Simon Spurrier
| simonspurrier.com
GATOR POACHERS PROWL THROUGH FEVER-DREAM FORESTS. A moonshine matriarch sneers and a lonesome park ranger cradles her belly. and in the swamp a hateful man feasts on fungus and prepares for war. THE VOICE SAID KILL is a unique Cajun crime thriller in four supersized chapters, from award winning creators VANESA DEL REY (Black Widow, Redlands) and SI SPURRIER (Step By Bloody Step, Hellblazer). Issue #1 drops July 23.
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