Review: The Wicker Pasty

From The Bigfoot Studio

Mixing food and some classic Cornish horror. Off the back of a successful Kickstarter campaign and now available in their online store, this is The Wicker Pasty from The Bigfoot Studio.

A Cornish summer and the festival of Gool Hoggan is in full swing. 

​Researching an episode for his food and folklore series, podcaster Jack Cousens finds himself in the ancient Cornish harbour village of Pendu. There at the invitation of a maverick recipe hunter, he finds a community blessed with exceptional good health and long life, following a faith tradition as old as the neolithic monuments that crown the headland above the village. 

But when his friend fails to appear, Jack learns more of  local custom and folklore, and while the drums in the streets grow louder he wonders how, and to what purpose, a person could  vanish from the knowledge and recall of an entire village.

Written and illustrated by Trystan Mitchell.

Think of the Wicker Man - I’m sure the comparison to that movie is totally intended - and add some food and menu hunting. That is a good place to have your mind when reading this comic.