Apparently, there are Simpsons comics. I never knew this, but it is one of those little-known but entirely unremarkable facts about our world, like the…
CIPC #147: Giving the devil her due, Vol.1
At the very beginning of Giving the devil her due, a webcomic1 by D. S. Newman and Magaly Abarca, a certain David gets run over…
CIPC #142: Nero Vol.143, De dood van Bompa
Nero is, or was at least, incredibly famous in Flanders and completely unknown outside of it. It is a comic with a cast of colourful…
CIPC #119: Translucid Vol.2
Translucid is an artsy take on the superhero genre published by BOOM! studios in six instalments between April and September 2014. I must admit that…
CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs
In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…
CIPC #76: Mickey Maus No.48
One of the biggest names in popular culture I have not mentioned so far is the almighty mouse, the great Mickey himself. Of course, there…
CIPC #51: Lucky Luke Vol.35, Jesse James
Who’s the greatest cowboy in popular culture? John Wayne, maybe? Clint Eastwood? Jonah Hex? If you ask me, the correct answer is Lucky Luke. Introduced…
CIPC #38: Mafalda
Which countries do you associate with comics? Perhaps you will immediately think of the American tradition, with superhero comics and Peanuts-style newspaper comics. Maybe the…
CIPC #33: Suske en Wiske Vol.245 De 7 schaken
Imagine, if you will, that you are a chess-obsessed kid in Flanders. A bleak prospect, perhaps, but try to entertain it for a little while…
CIPC #16: Guust Flater Vol.5: Daverende flaters te koop
Guust Flater, or Gaston Lagaffe in the original French, is probably the most popular anti-hero of the Franco-Belgian school of comic books. The series, written…