Two bylines in @forteantimes.bsky.social 470! 1st, my Forum article about how Paddington has become a very British psychopomp 2nd is my comics review column, where I review work by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social @gustaffovargas.bsky.social @bigfootstudio.bsky.social & @paulcornell.bsky.social & others

King Charles III made a scheduled visit to the Market House in St Austell yesterday where Cornish comic shop impressario Wendy Frankcom was allowed to represent all things comics and Cornwall by gifting his royalness copies of Trystan Mitchell’s hilarious comics, including The Wicker Pasty

Charles Addams’ quite brilliant cover for July 17th 1954’s The New Yorker.

Diplomatically, when a footpath is contested, appropriate offerings and rites of way should be observed to achieve an outcome satisfactory to both parties...

Just updated: the downthetubes 2026 events page - always a work in progress! - downthetubes.net/british-and-... and Exhibitions page: downthetubes.net/british-and-...

Time was it didn't feel properly Christmas until you'd leafed through Radio Times to ring all your seasonal listening and spent an age pouring over all the wealth of festive offerings from the country's finest illustrators...still a childhood dream to bag the cover job!

Fine reading for the season! Comic book Cornish folk horror from The Bigfoot Studio... www.thebigfootstudio.com/shop-comics.... Order now in time for Nos Kalan Gwav/Halloween' Both titles available to buy together to save on postage...

These books are well worth spending time and money getting lost in...written by fellow travellers who lived yet love to tell the tales!

I have and can recommend!

Fine reading for the season! Comic book Cornish folk horror from The Bigfoot Studio... www.thebigfootstudio.com/shop-comics.... Order now in time for Nos Kalan Gwav/Halloween' Both titles available to buy together to save on postage...

@breakfastruins.bsky.social ...surely a question for the next time you chat with MM on the show?

Now available from a Bigfoot Studio website near you... www.thebigfootstudio.com/shop-comics.... 'The Wicker Pasty' + 'The Ankow's Bain' in one handy postage saving bundle!

Missed out first time round so just had to back this new collection. The story sounds superb and Rory's artwork is outstanding as ever...

A mari and a candle inspired by a statue I saw

The latest from our village noticeboard outside the Spar shop. Apart from the use of illegal pit bikes during the Bank Holiday compliance is pretty much the norm up the top end of the village, where most folks tend to work in or under surveillance of one sort or another...

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copies! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copies! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

2 days left to get your copy! kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village" An imagined investigation by William Paynter, Cornish Bard & ghost hunting antiquary #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

TWO WEEKS UNTIL RELEASE! You can of course preorder from the link in JCs post! We don’t have Rick O’Connell and Evelyn Carnahan but we do explain everyone’s favourite undead sorcerer Imhotep.

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

I just backed The Ankow's Bain Kickstarter by @bigfootstudio.bsky.social and managed to push it over the line so it's now fully funded, but still time to pledge yourselves www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Back this so I (Ross) get my copy 🙏

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

100% funded with five days left to bag yourself a copy. Huge thanks to everyone who has backed and supported this book so far. Onward and upwards!

Three more backers of the print edition to see this crowdfunder reach its target...

#TheAnkowsBain now 95% funded! "I think our holiday home is haunted. Do you make house calls?" kickstarter.com/projects/the... "Bound by ancient graveyard tradition a lingering spirit haunts the shoreline of a drowned Cornish village." #Cornwall #folklore #haunted

Three more backers of the print edition to see this crowdfunder reach its target...

Three more backers of the print edition to see this crowdfunder reach its target...

Three more backers of the print edition to see this crowdfunder reach its target...