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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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CIPC #180: Timotheus Wang

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Today we are delving deep in the archives of Belgian comics to bring to light one of the most obscure subjects yet for this blog:…

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CIPC #159: Simpsons comics presents Bart Simpson Vol.56, Sore loser

Posted on February 25, 2020

Apparently, there are Simpsons comics. I never knew this, but it is one of those little-known but entirely unremarkable facts about our world, like the…

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CIPC #147: Giving the devil her due, Vol.1

Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

At the very beginning of Giving the devil her due, a webcomic1 by D. S. Newman and Magaly Abarca, a certain David gets run over…

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CIPC #142: Nero Vol.143, De dood van Bompa

Posted on October 22, 2019October 21, 2019

Nero is, or was at least, incredibly famous in Flanders and completely unknown outside of it. It is a comic with a cast of colourful…

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CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs

Posted on March 19, 2019March 20, 2019

In the more than two years I have been discussing chess in popular culture on this blog, I have seen the most horrible atrocities being…

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With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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