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Month: December 2020

CIPC #203: Asterix Vol.4, Asterix the gladiator

Posted on December 29, 2020

Sic transit gloria mundi! There is no better way to summarise the fate of the Asterix series. It started all the way back in 1959…

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CIPC #202: The manhole

Posted on December 23, 2020

2020 has become the year of video games. People have been at home rather more than usual and, naturally, they spend it playing Fortnite, Among…

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CIPC #201: De strateeg ad

Posted on December 16, 2020

Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official…

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CIPC #200: S. S. Van Dine, Le fou des échecs

Posted on December 9, 2020

This is the third year now that I do this blog. I have touched on movies, television series, paintings, comics, literature, sculptures – pretty much…

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CIPC #199: Alice in Wonderland

Posted on December 1, 2020

If you were to ask some random schmuck from the streets to give an example of chess in popular culture, provided you do this at…

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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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