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Stuart M

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Designer, writer, publisher. All sorts. linktr.ee/stuartmanning

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 15h
Today’s October feature: BOTD Buster Keaton co-directs (with Edward F. Cline) this 1921 short in which his bank clerk gets mixed up with counterfeiters, a trio of actors on the run, a haunted house, ghosts, and even a trip to (nearly) heaven and hell. Gags, stunts and daft spookiness, all great fun.
Title card for The Haunted House In a dimly lit room, Keaton pauses in astonishment as a white-sheated ghost walks across in front of him Two ‘skeletons’ (men in skeleton suits) hunch over and open a door and peer out of itKeaton in ‘hell’ having just slid down a helter skelter style slide into a cavern. He is sitting on the ground looking stunned, and near him is a desk made out of rock at which sits a man in a devil costume
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A production slate.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dublin, Ireland — Leonard McCombe, ca. 1957
Color photograph looking over the rooftops and chimneys of a city. At the center of the image is a white cat standing near the corner of a roof
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At least one of last week's EastEnders episodes.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've had a rotten week but someone's just given me a free loaf of bread so it's fine.
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In the late 1960s Puffin Books produced a series of films about some of their key authors. Here's the animated sequence that introduced them. The series included profiles of Alan Garner, Joan Aiken, Leon Garfield and Michael Bond.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Loved this woman- not only for her music, but for her sass, grit, courage, decency, wit, and generosity. A great woman and true legend.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not mine. I think it's by Jamie Lenman.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New work: A fun little illustration about travel and escape for Doctor Who Magazine. I took some inspiration from 1950s American motel matchbooks.
Illustration of the TARDIS by the Powell Estate, framed by a rainbow.
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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
DITKO!
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Made a thing, working with lots of talented people.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Congratulations! Very exciting.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I won't be listening to your emergency podcast.
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Dylan @ Doctor Who: Too Hot For Tv @toohot4tv.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Why did the BBC and Universal fall out? Did the TVM really cost $5m? How did Segal attempt to reboot the franchise after 1996? What did he think of Bill Baggs and Jean Marc Loffier? All this and more in my chat with Phil Segal.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A straight swap… Tom Kingsley should have done The Star Beast, with Rachel Talalay directing Wild Blue Yonder instead.
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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As ever, I admire Price’s commitment to the advertising/ah fuck it why not buck for projects
Vincent Price advertisement for Sears’ kitchen carpet. He is in a suit looking handsome against a red background, the carpet is orange patterned and together they make it look like Price is playing a butler in hell.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Join us as we share our collection of mid century Japanese lottery tickets www.instagram.com/__luckbook
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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Some Pertwee love: open.substack.com/pub/paulkirk...
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
He has an uncanny valley unfinished CGI look about him.
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Duille @duille.com · 12/05/2026
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A weatherwane prime minister. I don't believe he could choose his own path even if he wanted to.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yes.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I interviewed the producer who wrote those lyrics: "I thought they were really clever."
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 12/04/2026
My Way Home poster by Milos Reindl, 1965
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I love this.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Who could resist this Jill McDonald vampire puffin? Not me, anyway
A circular white badge with a cartoon picture of a puffin dressed as a vampire holding a gold topped cane with red capital letters reading I’m a sucker for puffins. The badge is on a pink fabric background
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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This might be the worst ADR in the history of television.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Incorrect.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Gutted about this. One of my favourite performances in one of my favourite films.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
US syndication deals didn't really favour actors until the mid-1970s. A lot of the Love Boat guest contingent were actors from shows being syndicated ten years on, who had stopped being paid after the first couple of years of screenings.
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The first book I can remember reading on my own. Relentless waxy porridge will conquer all.
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My Imaginary Brooklyn @myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
John Alcorn, 1971. From: “Circues - A Book To Begin On,” by Mary Kay Phelan. #illustration #1970s #JohnAlcorn #MaryKayPhelan
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Imagine being that bad at your job.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/01/2026
Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
In practice, though, the experiment has not been a success. Take copyright. The government’s pursuit of economic growth is laudable, even if the chosen route, of piling taxes and regulation onto businesses, is eccentric. In that context, what could be more natural than to open the door of Number 10 to every Silicon Valley huckster who came knocking?

Unfortunately, it turns out that writers and musicians weren’t fully persuaded that giving up all their present and future income is a good idea, even after it was explained to them that this was the only way Sam Altman would be able to afford a new lair under a volcano. Last month a consultation on the government’s proposals to give very rich Americans everything they want found they were supported by just three percent of people who wrote in. If the Department for Culture had still existed, someone there would have been able to save time by warning ministers that creative people – many of them instinctive Labour Party supporters – need m
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
What a beaut.
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Kate Louise Powell @katelouisepowell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas, her final series (and first in five years so she was probably on the way out anyway) airing every day over a working week.
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Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas
A collection of traditional recipes, together with Fanny's practical know-how, make for a successful Christmas.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A 2kg book of Olivetti’s design history. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/oli... Our final restock on these for 2025.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
RIP Martin Parr. Here are two of my favourite photos of all time. I get such a Proustian rush looking at them that I can hear the “fzzt” of a can of Quatro being opened.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Bar’s open! Photographer Martin Parr Union Hotel. Manchester, 1974. Martin Parr, always making the ordinary extraordinary.
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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Spooky advent day 6: Krampus, a traditional figure in Central and Eastern European folklore, is basically a terrifying horned bad santa, accompanying St Nicholas on his visits to children on the night before St Nicholas' Day (6th Dec) and punishing the bad ones by whipping them with birch twigs.
An illustration of the horrible horned head of Krampus, with green skin, bright yellow staring eyes and with a long protruding tongue emerging from his fanged grinning mouth. He has a beard (but not a moustache - always a bit weird) and long pointy ears. His eyebrows are raised presumably in glee at the prospect of beating up some kids with twigs and carrying them away in his basket. The background is a dull scratchy red.
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Stuart M @stuartmanning.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Knock-off green and pink popcorn in the Co-Op too.
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