American comics are more or less terra incognita to me. I have, of course, absorbed some knowledge about them via cultural osmosis, but not enough…
CIPC #407: Banacek S2 E1, No stone unturned
There will be no Best of/Worst of list this year, for the simple but compelling reason that I don’t feel like making one. Instead, we’ll…
CIPC #406: Ilja Ilf & Jevgeni Petrov, De twaalf stoelen
On the few occasions that I’ve talked about a book, I solely discussed the merits of the author. Today, I will consider it as a…
CIPC #405: Holiday in handcuffs
Last week’s movie about the sadistic serial killer was kind of fun, but this one is really disturbing. When in Copycat someone goes around gleefully…
CIPC #404: Copycat
There is an old aphorism that claims reality is weirder than fiction but, like most aphorisms, it is mostly bullshit. Take, for example, our subject…
CIPC #403: Harvester
It’s been a long time since we talked about a video game, and it’s been a really long time since we talked about one of…
CIPC #402: Weetabix ad
Weetabix is a brand of breakfast cereal. In the space of all things, there is perhaps nothing farther removed from chess than breakfast cereals. So…
CIPC #401: Wunder ad
Although I’m sure it’s never going to go away entirely, the time of the printed advertisement seems to be drawing to a close. But advertisement…
CIPC #400: Suske en Wiske Vol.375, De Schakende Schim
Last time I talked about one of the Suske and Wiske comics, I complained about the low, low quality of post-Vandersteen Suske and Wiske stories.…
CIPC #399: Tom Poes en het betoverde schaakspel
Barring my Dutch readers, there’s probably precious few of you that know Tom Poes, so let me briefly introduce him. He’s a somewhat anthropomorphised white…