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 #444: Fideel de fluwelen ridder No.175
My younger reader may not realise it, but, in the olden days, news streams had to put all the news items in writing, have them…
CIPC #437: Blueberry Vol.19, De lange mars
If you are from Belgium or France and you’re not too young, you have probably heard of Blueberry1 and you can skip to the next…
CIPC #408: Future foundation Vol.2 No.10
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 #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…
CIPC #358: De Rode Ridder Vol.14, De galmende kinkhoorns
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…
CIPC #353: Existential comics No.467
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…
CIPC #286: Dennis the menace 29-07-2022
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.…
CIPC #284: Calvin and Hobbes 10-09-1989
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…