Simon Spurrier

Simon "Si" Spurrier (born 2 May 1981) is a British comics writer and novelist, 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. He also wrote Marvel's ''X-Force'' in 2014 and 2015, which starred the characters Cable, Psylocke, Marrow and Fantomex.

He started co-writing ''Star Wars: Doctor Aphra'' from Marvel Comics with Kieron Gillen in November 2017 on issues #14-19, taking over with issue #20 in May 2018.

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 ''Contract'' (2007) and the second ''A Serpent Uncoiled'' (2011). Provided by Wikipedia