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CIPC #19: Lang leve de koningin

Posted on May 16, 2017June 6, 2017

Due to enormous success1 the last time I commented on a chess-themed movie, I will do it again. This time, the focus will be on…

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CIPC #18: Hamilton watches advert

Posted on May 9, 2017June 6, 2017

Watches, especially the high-end ones, have a very posh image. They’re supposed to be for the distinguished gentleman, evoking images of a quiet British club…

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CIPC #17: 1984

Posted on May 2, 2017June 6, 2017

One sure sign of an author’s lasting success is when his phrases and his words become common parlance. Very few authors have achieved this in…

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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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CIPC #12: Kiekeboe Vol.14: Een zakje chips

Posted on March 28, 2017

Kiekeboe is a family adventure comic series which is hugely popular in Flanders and, to some extend, the Netherlands. The series has been running for…

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CIPC #11: Checkmate the king

Posted on March 21, 2017March 23, 2017

As you might already have deduced from this site and its title, I have a slight interest in history. Yet in this blog, I haven’t…

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CIPC #10: X-men

Posted on March 14, 2017March 14, 2017

The X-men, as most of you doubtlessly know, are an American team of superheroes. They get their name from their mentor, professor Xavier, and the…

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