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 #419: Globi Vol.57, Globis Abenteuer im Weltraum
I imagine that, throughout the years, many people have perused this blog and arrived at the conclusion that, although my writings are not wholly without…
CIPC #413: Jommeke Vol.186, De pruik van Anatool
Jommeke is a Belgian comic series for very young children. The eponymic hero and main character is a young boy, devoid of characteristics barring perfection…
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 #296: Rat-Man No.48
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…
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.…