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Month: April 2017

CIPC #16: Guust Flater Vol.5: Daverende flaters te koop

Posted on April 25, 2017June 6, 2017

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…

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CIPC #15: Book cover galore

Posted on April 18, 2017

Chess, due to its symbolical connotations, is a popular motive for book covers, even if the book itself has nothing whatever to do with it.…

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CIPC #14: Knight moves

Posted on April 11, 2017April 12, 2017

Fourteenth instalment! Finally a nice round number!1 That deserves something special, I’d say. Something very special indeed: I’m going to watch a movie. More specifically,…

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CIPC #13: Tintin Vol.5: The broken ear

Posted on April 2, 2017April 16, 2017

Obscure engravings, highly local comics series – the ‘popular’ in the name of this blog has become somewhat spurious lately. High time, I think, to…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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