Steven Harris is a British cartoonist and writer, based in London. His first novel, ''Eustace'', was published in March 2013 by

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and launched at Waterstones Gower Street.

Career

Harris contributed the illustrations for a range of books in the Nightingale Press's ''Modern Anthropology'' range of humorous ''Modern Guides'', including ''Hats'' (which he also authored), ''Drink'', and ''Spectacles''. Harris also authored the long-running web comics ''Paper Cuts'' and ''Eustace'', both published on

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under the pseudonym spimcoot. During time spent with an artists' collective in

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, France, he also contributed satirical French cartoons to a daily

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newspaper, again under the name spimcoot. His novel length version of the Eustace comics, 'Eustace', was published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in March 2013. It concerns the adventures of a bed-bound boy, joined by a "swelling cast of hoodlums, models, drunkards and politicians". He is currently writing the second book in the Eustace quartet.

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