Finding a Spanking Holy Grail – Thank You Janus Worldwide

I am thrilled to report the considerable progress being made over at the brand spanking new Janus Worldwide web-site … photographer Roy Tersley, who is lovingly digitizing as many original versions of Janus, Roué, Februs and Blushes as he can get his hands on, has recently become something of a spanko celebrity, being interviewed both by Dave over at The Cherry Red Report and by MarQe (a fellow fan of Miss Nicola Redway btw) over at The Study .

In one of my rare anecdotal posts Soho, London, Circa 1972-1975 I lament over the tragic loss of one of my early collections of spanking magazines, including many early and now very rare editions of Janus … now thanks to Roy’s efforts I am able to repurchase in digital format many of these lost treasures … I was thrilled to find a reprint of Roué 41 … the previous edition had introduced a gal known as Joanna Redstone as an obnoxious Headgirl of the fictitious Frimlingham High school for gals who is caught delivering illegal whops to an unfortunate subordinate, (Joanna became the inspiration for the characters of Yvonne Godfrey and Mitch the Bitch in the Woody Back to School Unit saga) … the magazine promised a full account of Joanna getting her comeuppance in the following edition … I was working overseas when the new edition hit the newsstands and did not return until some months later … as usual upon my return to Blighty I cut along sharpish to Old Compton Street to procure myself a copy … unfortunately they were sold out and over the coming years I often checked in to see if an edition had become available but sadly it was never to be found on the shelves … over the years I have found several images on the net but never the full set … to my delight Roy and his team have delivered this Holy Grail … and for the princely sum of USD 6.28 (GBP 4.00) I was able to download in pdf format … considering the age of the original the quality is about as good as can be expected (the three iconic images featuring the model known as Joanna included in this post were taken directly from the pdf file) … the full magazine runs to sixty pages and features stories, pictures, features and readers letters so all in all pretty good value for money … so thanks a shedload to Roy and his team … keep up the good work … and please find copies of New Janus Number 1 and Janus Volume 8, Number 12 and digitize them!

So my friends while I kickback and enjoy this very old publication with a very well-spiced Bloody Mary please feel free to hang around at Woodys and have a good old rummage about … there are thirty-nine full volumes of the Woody Back to School Unit saga available for download in Library I and numerous other Woody related writings and ramblings in Library II … the galleries contain over a hundred completely original toons that I have commissioned over the last eighteen months … and you know what? … the best thing about this? … Everything at Woodys is ABSOLUTELY FREE and COMMERCIAL FREE … Bottoms Up! … RH

A Woody Update … Message from Mr Humphries

Over the past few weeks I have received numerous emails enquiring after the state of my health and also, due to my recent lack of activity, whether I am closing the doors to the Woody Back to School Unit … the answer to the former is that touchwood I seem to have made a remarkable recovery from my unfortunate health misadventure, largely due to successfully giving up smoking (yay me) … and thank you all so much for your kind thoughts.

The answer to the latter question is slightly more complex … the simple answer is no, the WB2SU site will continue to remain open and will be updated whenever appropriate and new material is available … I have published thirty-nine full length installments of the Woody Back to School Unit saga and am slowly but inexorably reaching the conclusion of this account of the current phase of the lives of the many characters that inhabit the correctional center for Extreme Ladettes … my problem is that as a spanking writer my style has never been simply “Get over my knee”, “Down with the bumbags”, ‘Whap! Whop! Whap!’, End of Story! … Although spanking and corporal punishment is indubitably the central theme of the saga I have always tried to involve my characters in adventures (and misadventures) and to elaborate on the back-stories of what led them to be sentenced to spend seven years at this austere government correctional institution without even the vaguest possibility of parole … However, as I near the conclusion of the tale I find it increasingly challenging to avoid becoming repetitive and not recounting old back-stories that can be found elsewhere in the saga … That being said, the publication of the most recent volume ‘Volume 39 – Big Gals Don’t Cry’ was included in the highly influential Spankings of the Week listings published by the inimitable Mr Chross which attracted a host of brand new readers … I notice from the analytical data that WordPress provides me a whole slew of new guests have elected to go back and start at ‘Volume 1 – Whops and Clobber’, and slowly work their way through the complete saga, which, of course, I think is quite wonderful … I have also noticed this phenomenon over at the quite excellent Kilahara Library of Spanking Fiction where my saga has been show-cased for some time and continuously finds new readers and fans of the Woody Gals … so welcome to all of you and I hope that you find the stories and characters engaging and entertaining and continue to read.

Equally with the Woody Toons that I have commissioned and developed in collaboration with Our Man in Phuket, the legendary wine-soak Dave Ell , they started off as an experiment, I thought I’d try out a couple but over a nearly two year period I ended up purchasing over a hundred toons … again they are mostly based upon extracts from the saga that I felt were suitable for the cartoon genre … as I progress towards the conclusion of the story I can assure you that I will continue to commission Dave for new works when there is a good story to tell.

So, in the meantime, while I continue to produce new and original writing and toons please feel free to hang around at Woodys and have a good old rummage about … there are thirty-nine full volumes of the Woody Back to School Unit saga available for download in Library I and numerous other Woody related writings and ramblings in Library II … the galleries contain over a hundred completely original toons that I have commissioned from Dave … and you know what? … the best thing about this? … Everything at Woodys is ABSOLUTELY FREE and COMMERCIAL FREE … Bottoms Up! … RH

A Belated Happy New Year and RIP Ronald Searle

My humble apologies and a belated Happy New Year to all our friends and guests … I would like to particularly thank the Legendary Mr Chross, and the Equally Legendary BrushStrokes, who were both kind enough to give the publication of the latest installment of the Woody Back to School Unit saga ‘Volume 39 – Big Gals Don’t Cry’, a mention over the festive season … thanks a lot guys … not only did the latest volume get a staggering number of downloads but according to the stats in WordPress a whole slew of new readers are starting at the beginning of the saga and are slowly working their way through my little spanking saga … so a big welcome to all of you.

On a slightly less cheerful note I was sad to learn that the great cartoonist Ronald Searle past quietly into the night … Searle was many things but first and foremost he was the originator of the wonderful St Trinians cartoons that inspired a number of movies of varying quality and certainly there are elements of the St Trinian culture lurking in the dark recesses of the Woody Back to School Unit yarns and some of the potential candidates to appear in films based upon his books and toon’s have inspired several characters in the books.

The very best source of Searle memorabilia on the web can be found at Perpetua where 4 full pages are dedicated to his immortal Trinny toons.

Any way welcome to our new guests and bon voyage to Ronnie old boy (91 actually qualifies for Old Boy status!) … Please feel free to hang about and have a good old rummage … there is plenty to look read and look at and most importantly everything at Woodys is ABSOLUTELY FREE and COMMERCIAL FREE … Bottoms Up! … RH