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Kris Bertin

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Please read my HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES but also my regular stories krisbertin.com hobtown.com

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I'm indulgent because I love the children so

10.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This would 100% be a hit with the children

And good god no

10.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
close up of phil collins puppet

close up of phil collins puppet

perfectly fair reaction

09.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My son often asks for this music video (Land of Confusion by Genesis, which he just calls "gross guys song") so he can watch and continually exclaim "eww" every time puppet Phil Collins is on the screen

The algorithm thinks it's my favorite song now

09.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Automatic reblue for any Mary Pratt painting

She is just the greatest

09.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ginger Ale and Tomato Sandwich No. 1
Mary Pratt
1999

09.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 174 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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Anything that you wish were true (but might not be) in real life is canonically true in Hobtown.

09.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Land & Sea: The mystery of Halifax's secret tunnels
Land & Sea: The mystery of Halifax's secret tunnels YouTube video by CBC News Nova Scotia

Odds of Secret Evil Tunnels underneath Halifax: 50-50

Odds of Secret Evil Tunnels underneath Hobtown: 100%

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_n...

09.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The End of Comics History may Finally be Coming to an End: O.F. Stapledon Reviews Derek M. Ballard’s CARTOONSHOW - SOLRAD The End of Comics History may Finally be Coming to an End: O.F. Stapledon Reviews Derek M. Ballard’s CARTOONSHOW

plz consider buying my big book, CARTOONSHOW from @oni-press.bsky.social. Here's one of my favorite reviews: solrad.co/the-end-of-c...

05.03.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Il est le mΓͺme traducteur avec lequel nous avons travaillΓ©! Nous avons tenu pour ce nouveau contrat !

Merci d'avoir visitΓ© Hobtown!!!

[Je m'excuse pour mon FranΓ§ais merde]

05.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Notre ami Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau (qui a rΓ©alisΓ© les premiers livres Pow Pow) est en train de traduire ceci en ce moment mΓͺme.

05.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hobtown Mystery Stories 3: The Secret Of The Saucer - The Comics Journal A mea culpa is in order.

Hobtown Mystery Stories 3: The Secret Of The Saucer by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, reviewed by Brian Nicholson www.tcj.com/reviews/hobt...

04.03.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hobtown Mystery Stories 3: The Secret Of The Saucer - The Comics Journal A mea culpa is in order.

"What if Memento was an episode of Twin Peaks?" What if I wrote about the new @hobtown.bsky.social for @comicsjournal.bsky.social? What might that be like?

04.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This book was such a strange, delicate experiment, and we've asked a lot of our audience. Touched that so many have not only understood, but loved it.

Also has meant a great deal that we've had such thoughtful, generous readers, and reviewers such as Brian.

What a great review!

04.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out this sick cover (Artist unknown, poss Bob Larkin, interior is Jeff Jones)

04.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Argentinian pulp covers, circa maybe the 1960s. I love how incredibly lurid and dark they are.

04.03.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Ken Jennings: this Madmen character was sulty, sexy, and--

*BUZZER*

Me: WHO IS DUCK PHILLIPS???

02.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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!!!

02.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Les hobtowns des Γ©ditions Delcourt sont arrivΓ©s ! Ils sont magnifiques et aussi...incroyablement GRANDS
Γ‡a c'est un phonebook, la!

Merci de votre visite sur Hobtown.fr

02.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much

I promise the next one will be the best ever

02.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@hobtown.bsky.social Hey, just recently got into Hobtown and now I'm obsessed. Killer work

02.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)

Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)

we out here.

26.02.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 257 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 18
Book THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, with an illustration of a teenage girl with orange hair standing in a field holding a ski mask and a large projectile with a military gun in the background, Blu-Ray of RED ROOMS, with a photo of a woman's face in saturated red light with one half of it flipped upside down, Blu-Ray of ANIMATION NIGHT IN CANADA VOL. 1 with a painting of an ultra-close-up face with the title written on the dark glasses they are wearing.

Book THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, with an illustration of a teenage girl with orange hair standing in a field holding a ski mask and a large projectile with a military gun in the background, Blu-Ray of RED ROOMS, with a photo of a woman's face in saturated red light with one half of it flipped upside down, Blu-Ray of ANIMATION NIGHT IN CANADA VOL. 1 with a painting of an ultra-close-up face with the title written on the dark glasses they are wearing.

Just got ahold of a couple of parcels a friend ended up keeping for me for a couple of months, and within, a shiny stack of CanCon.

27.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Right now my province's private equity paradise papers premiere is gutting arts funding while handing out treats to the private sector, and my nation's banking and hedge fund Prime Minister is applauding the invasion of Iran while doing the same for oil, AI, and weapons. Plunder at every level.

01.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I believe these people--the bosses and the warmongers and fascists--have learned that they can get away with it. Maybe they are like us, and cannot believe that we are letting them get away with it, but they know that they are. They're making off with their spoils and edging ever closer to insanity.

01.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Days like this I look at my children and think about how fragile and precious they are. It would be absurd to think the children of the world are any less precious but that's exactly what these people ask us to believe. That their bodies are where they belong when they are buried underneath rubble.

01.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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28.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
NYT: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and his foreign minister, Anita Anand, backed the American action. β€œCanada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” they said in a joint statement.

NYT: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and his foreign minister, Anita Anand, backed the American action. β€œCanada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” they said in a joint statement.

so much for that davos speech

28.02.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 207 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 13

@hobtown.bsky.social So i just lost about 3 hours (and my sleep schedule) somehow with Secret of the Saucer/ The Saucer Secret, but my biggest question remains: β€œWhat is a Beef Whip?!” Hope to see how this all might fall out in a volume 4.

28.02.2026 09:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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be new (2/2)

13.10.2024 18:14 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0