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…
CIPC #147: Giving the devil her due, Vol.1
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…
CIPC #142: Nero Vol.143, De dood van Bompa
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…
CIPC #111: The smurfs, Vol.11: The Olympic Smurfs
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…
CIPC #87: Sandra and Woo No.574, Intelligence in pets
One of the more popular webcomics at the moment – number twenty on this plausible-looking list – is Sandra and Woo, which tells off a…
CIPC #76: Mickey Maus No.48
One of the biggest names in popular culture I have not mentioned so far is the almighty mouse, the great Mickey himself. Of course, there…
CIPC #60: Kiekeboe Vol.89, De s van pion
Every now and then, some mainstream comic of tv-series features chess in one of its episodes; by now you might already be aware of that.…
CIPC #58: Existential comics No.215
I think I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: there’s some weird stuff on the internet. There’s a subreddit dedicated to unexpected factorials, there’s…
CIPC #56: Batman Vol.1 No.23
I have a confession to make: I know squat about American comics. Especially about superhero comics. Of course, there’s a lot of chess in them,…