Imagine, if you will, that you are a chess-obsessed kid in Flanders. A bleak prospect, perhaps, but try to entertain it for a little while…
CIPC #16: Guust Flater Vol.5: Daverende flaters te koop
Guust Flater, or Gaston Lagaffe in the original French, is probably the most popular anti-hero of the Franco-Belgian school of comic books. The series, written…
CIPC #13: Tintin Vol.5: The broken ear
Obscure engravings, highly local comics series – the ‘popular’ in the name of this blog has become somewhat spurious lately. High time, I think, to…
CIPC #12: Kiekeboe Vol.14: Een zakje chips
Kiekeboe is a family adventure comic series which is hugely popular in Flanders and, to some extend, the Netherlands. The series has been running for…
CIPC #6: Robbedoes 1980/33, Klont
Today we’re going to do something a bit more obscure. So obscure, in fact, that the moniker ‘popular culture’ can barely be justified. Yes, today…
CIPC #1: The smurfs, Vol.10: The Smurf Soup
Ah, the Smurfs! The little blue guys don’t need an introduction, I think, but I will give them one anyway. Here goes: the smurfs were,…