[1][2] The story begins with (former) student wizard and stage magician Sidney Malik, who is cursed with stealing small objects, becoming attached to a bracelet that by custom declares him the King of Thieves.

This brings him to the notice of Harriet "Harry" Barber, professional bounty hunter and pipe smoker, and leads them two off onto further adventure[1] In the second story, two vagrants are pressed to work for the city's bureaucracy to deal with "malforms," the destructive results of summoning spells gone awry.

[3] In a review for io9, Lauren Davis said that "Ashwin strikes a comedic tone with her comic that might be too light for some, but her worldbuilding is growing steadily more intriguing and her characters are fun to spend time with".

[1] Steve Morris, reviewing Widdershins for ComicsAlliance, described it as "a uniquely English sort of series, inspired as much by the Great British Bake Off as by classic novels gone by.

[5] In addition to Widdershins, which she works full time on,[2] Kate Ashwin has also contributed comics to printed collections of fairy tales[6][7] and to Chemistry World.