Christopher Wickham
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Christopher Wickham
@cwickham.bsky.social
· Dec 23
A look back at all the least terrible things written by me in 2024. cwickham.blogspot.com/2024/12/best...
RIP Gavin Petrie, who was amongst many, many other things Fleetway artist J. Edward Oliver's editor early in his career.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
RIP Gavin Petrie, who was amongst many, many other things Fleetway artist J. Edward Oliver's editor early in his career.
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
To the latest person who has just DMed me, I have no way of verifying my age so I have no idea who you are or what you're trying to tell me
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
To the latest person who has just DMed me, I have no way of verifying my age so I have no idea who you are or what you're trying to tell me
Somebody unexpectedly entered the office this morning and a colleague looked up from their monitor and said in a high-pitched voice "I'm doing my work!!"
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Somebody unexpectedly entered the office this morning and a colleague looked up from their monitor and said in a high-pitched voice "I'm doing my work!!"
@docwallace.bsky.social Can I have your email address for something?
(Probably quickest to email me, address is on my Blogger profile)
(Probably quickest to email me, address is on my Blogger profile)
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@docwallace.bsky.social Can I have your email address for something?
(Probably quickest to email me, address is on my Blogger profile)
(Probably quickest to email me, address is on my Blogger profile)
L: Chief Vitalstatistix holds a press conference to announce the plot of "Asterix and the Big Fight", in a 1964 page from Pilote homaging the press conferences of Charles de Gaulle.
R: In an advert in this week's Beano, Asterix and Obelix do an Instagram Live to promote "Asterix in Lusitania".
R: In an advert in this week's Beano, Asterix and Obelix do an Instagram Live to promote "Asterix in Lusitania".
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
L: Chief Vitalstatistix holds a press conference to announce the plot of "Asterix and the Big Fight", in a 1964 page from Pilote homaging the press conferences of Charles de Gaulle.
R: In an advert in this week's Beano, Asterix and Obelix do an Instagram Live to promote "Asterix in Lusitania".
R: In an advert in this week's Beano, Asterix and Obelix do an Instagram Live to promote "Asterix in Lusitania".
Dad died this evening, will probably be offline for a while, much love to you all x
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Dad died this evening, will probably be offline for a while, much love to you all x
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Sunday evening replug for this week's writing #2
A scintillating piece of writing on statistics in solo adventure gamebooks. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/11/stat...
November 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sunday evening replug for this week's writing #2
Sunday evening replug for this week's writing #1
A piece of a fascinating, if somewhat morbid, comics-related puzzle falls into place. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/ghos...
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Sunday evening replug for this week's writing #1
A scintillating piece of writing on statistics in solo adventure gamebooks. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/11/stat...
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A scintillating piece of writing on statistics in solo adventure gamebooks. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/11/stat...
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If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
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two vast and trunkless legs
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
two vast and trunkless legs
For some reason I published a piece of writing ideally suited to Halloween in early September, so here's another link to it now.
With Halloween a mere 46 days away, here is a look at the British comics equivalent of The Munsters and The Addams Family. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
For some reason I published a piece of writing ideally suited to Halloween in early September, so here's another link to it now.
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God, some days Mitchell and Webb's "send us your reckons" sketch rings out so loudly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd...
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Send us your reckons
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
God, some days Mitchell and Webb's "send us your reckons" sketch rings out so loudly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd...
Thought Bugonia was going to be even more surreal than I imagined, then an usher explained the projectionist needed to adjust the film
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Thought Bugonia was going to be even more surreal than I imagined, then an usher explained the projectionist needed to adjust the film
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I challenge you to open this in your browser and not be impressed and sucked in messenger.abeto.co
Messenger
It's a small planet, but someone's gotta make the deliveries.
messenger.abeto.co
October 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I challenge you to open this in your browser and not be impressed and sucked in messenger.abeto.co
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Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
A piece of a fascinating, if somewhat morbid, comics-related puzzle falls into place. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/ghos...
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A piece of a fascinating, if somewhat morbid, comics-related puzzle falls into place. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/ghos...
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Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.
Found in Charity Shops: 28/10/25 edition
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Found in Charity Shops: 28/10/25 edition
Working on quite a fun piece of gamebook nerdery for this weekend.
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Working on quite a fun piece of gamebook nerdery for this weekend.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
HAIM in Cardiff last night
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
HAIM in Cardiff last night