I’m glad to see good chum of the blog and regular contributor here Matt Badham has a web presence again with Citizen Badham and has used it to post up an expanded Q&A with Si Spurrier which originally appeared in a much shorted version in the Judge Dredd Megazine; now Matt has (with Si’s permission) posted up the whole interview where they discuss Si’s work for the now sadly defunct Warhammer Monthly.
“Matt: How did you get involved in writing for Warhammer Monthly?
Si: Let’s see… I would’ve been about 18 or 19 at the time. After a couple of years of sending (frankly dreadful) submissions to 2000AD, I was finally starting to get somewhere with them. It slowly reached the point that I was getting regular enough gigs – Future Shocks, mostly – that I figured I could quit my Saturday job and fund myself through Uni by writing. Then… well: girls and grog and goth-clothing and yadda yadda. Expensive times. It quickly dawned on me that if you’re going to be a “pro writer” you have to have a lot more than a single iron in the fire, so I started hunting about for other avenues. I’d recently met PJ Holden – an awesome artist who was also just starting out – and he introduced me to Gordon Rennie. Gordon’s got a sense of humour so dry it’ll suck the water from your body at 50 paces, but he’s secretly a Lovely Bloke. He put me onto Christian Dunn at WHM.
I’d never really been into wargaming, but when I was a bit younger I used to buy the coolest-looking models (mostly monsters) to paint, so I guess I had a rudimentary idea of how the WH and WH40k universes operated. I did some quick homework and pitched a few ideas to Christian, one of which (all about a troll-slayer with a particularly pungent aroma), he liked.”
Mon, Dec 14, 2009
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