Children In Need is a massive, joyous, annual event in the UK, a telethon that raises huge sums for charities. Some years ago, someone had the so-obvious-why-has-no-one-thought-of-it-before idea of...

The latest Shanster to join the hallowed ranks of those featured on a Tattoo Tuesday post is called MORGAN, who went for this full-blooded recreation of the UK hardback cover for Lord Loss --...

I wrote a short story called "Hagurosan" many years ago for the War Child anthology, "Kids' Night In". It used to be on my site, to read for free, but several years later, the publishers Barrington...

The Shans spent a week on holiday in Cork earlier in the summer, a trip from which these four photos originated.

The first was taken in Cobh, a harbour town that was close to our hotel. It's a...

"When Vancha March met with his end at the ripe old age of 837, killed by a pair of tigers (but only after he'd killed four other tigers in their pack), this world lost its bravest, strongest,...

A Shanster who was a recent visitor to the Hunt Museum in Limerick was tickled to spot an essay highlighting the Olmec Man sculpture, which is part of their collection, written by... ME?!?

I...