si spurrier Archives

(Short 'N Curlies) — #6 Si Spurrier The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Writing comics and writing novels are two brainshittingly different disciplines, and you'd have to be thicker than Ronald McDonald's arteries not to know it.  Different media, different cultures, different worlds Yes?  Yes. Consider: one's the preserve of overweight, pasty-skinned writers in cheap T-Shirts, trawling the Internets with[...]

This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: ...the false excitement of a Legitimate Distraction From Work (LDWF)... which is then revealed to be more hollow and

(SHORT 'N CURLIES) — #4 SI SPURRIER BRAINFART: My next comicbook masterpiece, for which I shall be paid ten hundred thousand groats, will have the political mission of healing any remaining scars of the Cold War in the spirit of Interplanetary Unification, Amero-Soviet integration, and Ganging Up On The Fucking Germans.  It will use the tried-and-tested subgenre of[...]

(SHORT 'N CURLIES) – #3 SI SPURRIER BRAINFART: I have The Fear, and here is why: Modern inventions and discoveries lack elegance.  Really.  They're either so sky-fuckingly complicated that they tend to be the sole preserve of scientists with more letters after their name than an episode of Sesame Street, or — if they are presented by someone Normal[...]

(SHORT 'N CURLIES) – #2 SI SPURRIER I FACT YOU RIGHT IN THE FACE: A friend of mine sprogged-up recently, and in the "oooh, isn't he sweet" aftermath of deceit and secret revulsion she committed the Ultimate Crime of harping on and on and on to everyone — including the other girls in our little group, who might[...]

(SHORT 'N CURLIES) – #1 SI SPURRIER BRAINFART: The next movie I write will be Jurassic Park 4: ADAMZOIC, in which a group of committed Creationists sneak onto a dinosaur-infested Island in an attempt to prove that humans and slavering proto-avian carnivores can live in harmony, as in Eden.  The film will be 3 hours long; will feature[...]

Gutsville is an Image comic by Si Spurrier and Frazer Irving about a religious 18th-century world within the belly of an unknown beast The Book of Job crossed with Luddites and a community that survives But it's been on hiatus for quite a while Writer Si Spurrier offered to explain, live, on Twitter. Bleeding Cool:  I[...]

SHORT 'N CURLIES – #0 Si Spurrier The other night I dreamt that excessive levels of HATE could cause haemorrhoids. Not in the obvious way – like the more you loathe stuff the more arsegrapes you sprout – but in the impersonal sense: like a weapon.  Oh-ho-yes; what fun I needed merely to turn my misanthropic revulsion on[...]