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CIPC #296: Rat-Man No.48

Posted on November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

When you think of comics, you probably think about American superhero comics, Japanese manga, or perhaps the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées. You probably don’t think of…

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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 #216: Suske en Wiske – korte verhalen – schaken

Posted on April 7, 2021January 3, 2022

Everybody in Flanders know Suske en Wiske. There are well over three hundred issues in the comic book series, there have been a couple of…

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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 #171: Casper the friendly ghost, Vol.2

Posted on May 20, 2020

Who is the most famous ghost in all of fiction? The obvious answer would be the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future from Dickens’…

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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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