As the year draws to its end, all its calamities and horrors parade once more before my eyes and I realise it’s been a particularly…
CIPC #457: Globi Vol.31, König der Spassmacher
When I wrote my first blog post about blue Swiss parrot Globi, I had no idea I had stumbled upon a whole stash of material.…
CIPC #456: The thing from another world
When John Campbell published his collection of short stories Who goes there? in 1938 on a grand total of 3000 copies, he would nary have…
CIPC #455: Fiido ad
To me, Fiido sounds like someone has lost his dog and is now calling for it everywhere, 1 hoping against all hope that it will…
CIPC #454: František Chochola, The young king of Easaidh Ruadh
František Chochola is perhaps not a household name, but he was quite an accomplished man. He has the illustrations to countless books to his name,…