| Take a dip into a tin-plated, primary crayon coloured world of crocus-breeding, alienation, kite flying, bigotry, cat rescuing and class warfare. And a paragliding pensioner. These strange tales for `grown-up boys and girls of all ages' emerge from scenery co-opted from classic Children's Annuals, while battling with issues from the all-too real world: racism, war, climate change, where to get a decent hair cut... The genre-bending commences with WINDERBILT OVER FLOODSVILLE (Available-Now!), the first of a series of comic fantasy adventures, dare one say: umbrella-titled, WINDERBILT OVER FLOODSVILLE- AND OTHER CRUSADES. Mr. Winderbilt, our reluctant, somewhat curmudgeonly hero, finds himself in an oddly familiar but unwelcoming environment, riddled with prejudice and gout, social gazumping and crime mystery (the environment, that is, not our man.) Forced out of his retirement seclusion in a countryside backwater, Mr. Winderbilt's subtle `superhero' powers are employed to pluck travellers and schoolchildren from near doom, as he is dragged blinking into the light of the unforgiving and increasingly modern world... |
