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CIPC #408: Future foundation Vol.2 No.10

Posted on January 14, 2025January 14, 2025

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…

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CIPC #400: Suske en Wiske Vol.375, De Schakende Schim

Posted on November 19, 2024November 19, 2024

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.…

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CIPC #399: Tom Poes en het betoverde schaakspel

Posted on November 12, 2024November 12, 2024

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…

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CIPC #358: De Rode Ridder Vol.14, De galmende kinkhoorns

Posted on January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Looking back on last year’s posts, you see American shows, British shows, singers from France or the Netherlands, commercials from all corners of the Earth…

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CIPC #353: Existential comics No.467

Posted on December 13, 2023December 29, 2023

A long, long time ago, we discussed an issue of Existential comics in which Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were seen playing a game…

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CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022

Posted on August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

There are certain fictional characters that one only starts to appreciate with age. Homer Simpson, for example, to a child seems like a boring loser.…

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CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

What’s the best newspaper comic of all time? Many will say it’s The peanuts. Some people might prefer Dilbert, or The wizard of Id. Maybe…

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CIPC #226: The Perry bible fellowship, Primate checkmate

Posted on June 15, 2021January 3, 2022

Today, we go visit the digital lagerstätte and dig up one of the dinosaurs of the internet: The Perry bible fellowship. Before Twitter, Facebook, and…

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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 #185: Nero Vol.123, Wonderboy

Posted on August 25, 2020

Flemish people of a certain age might remember Nero from the newspapers, in which he featured for decades.1 Regular readers of this blog might know…

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