Christopher Wickham
@cwickham.bsky.social
Quite a fast reader. cwickham.blogspot.com
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.
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".
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...
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...
Found in Charity Shops: 28/10/25 edition
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Found in Charity Shops: 28/10/25 edition
HAIM in Cardiff last night
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
HAIM in Cardiff last night
Does anyone know where I could get some little CD storage units like this?
(Please also enjoy this glimpse at my eccentric taste in music.)
(Please also enjoy this glimpse at my eccentric taste in music.)
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Does anyone know where I could get some little CD storage units like this?
(Please also enjoy this glimpse at my eccentric taste in music.)
(Please also enjoy this glimpse at my eccentric taste in music.)
On rediscovering a childhood memory of one of the funniest things I ever read. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
October 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On rediscovering a childhood memory of one of the funniest things I ever read. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Anyway, another addition to the collection of signed comedians' memoirs today.
October 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Anyway, another addition to the collection of signed comedians' memoirs today.
Always good when you manage to find a childhood memory that's been stuck in your head for the better part of three decades in a comic annual you've just bought in a charity shop.
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Always good when you manage to find a childhood memory that's been stuck in your head for the better part of three decades in a comic annual you've just bought in a charity shop.
Today I purchased a Simpsons car shade and went to a talk by Tony Robinson, if you can think of a better Saturday I'd like to hear it
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Today I purchased a Simpsons car shade and went to a talk by Tony Robinson, if you can think of a better Saturday I'd like to hear it
Some highly significant analysis of the adventure gamebook scene in the early nineties. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Some highly significant analysis of the adventure gamebook scene in the early nineties. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
If it helps to be more specific: "Dog's Breakfast TV", a story about a breakfast show presented by anthropomorphic dogs, ran for just 14 strips...
October 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If it helps to be more specific: "Dog's Breakfast TV", a story about a breakfast show presented by anthropomorphic dogs, ran for just 14 strips...
The original, rejected design for James by Henry Davies, rejected for being too depressing.
The character was almost scrapped after other artists couldn't make it work, but eventually the new-to-D. C. Thomson Tom Paterson managed to nail the tone they were going for.
The character was almost scrapped after other artists couldn't make it work, but eventually the new-to-D. C. Thomson Tom Paterson managed to nail the tone they were going for.
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The original, rejected design for James by Henry Davies, rejected for being too depressing.
The character was almost scrapped after other artists couldn't make it work, but eventually the new-to-D. C. Thomson Tom Paterson managed to nail the tone they were going for.
The character was almost scrapped after other artists couldn't make it work, but eventually the new-to-D. C. Thomson Tom Paterson managed to nail the tone they were going for.
It may be an exaggeration to say this month's Nine/Rose BF story features Chris' greatest performance as the Doctor.
But only a small one.
But only a small one.
October 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It may be an exaggeration to say this month's Nine/Rose BF story features Chris' greatest performance as the Doctor.
But only a small one.
But only a small one.
Self Esteem at the Beacon tonight
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Self Esteem at the Beacon tonight
It is *very* disorienting to me that the Bunty Annual lasted long enough to have a feature about Miley Cyrus in the last one.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It is *very* disorienting to me that the Bunty Annual lasted long enough to have a feature about Miley Cyrus in the last one.
I think it's a subtle process, rather than the character completely changing from one week to the next, but the left is 'teen Dennis' at perhaps his apex in February '93, and the right is from May.
September 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I think it's a subtle process, rather than the character completely changing from one week to the next, but the left is 'teen Dennis' at perhaps his apex in February '93, and the right is from May.
Yet another set of charity shops, yet another pile of old comics.
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Yet another set of charity shops, yet another pile of old comics.
From the 21/07/99 edition of Buster: J. Edward Oliver, the last artist still employed by the magazine at that point (everything else is reprints), is thoroughly aware that the comic is probably going to be cancelled very soon.
September 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
From the 21/07/99 edition of Buster: J. Edward Oliver, the last artist still employed by the magazine at that point (everything else is reprints), is thoroughly aware that the comic is probably going to be cancelled very soon.
Tomorrow's new Beano features a Taskmaster-inspired Minnie the Minx strip, for the interested.
September 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tomorrow's new Beano features a Taskmaster-inspired Minnie the Minx strip, for the interested.
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-...
September 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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-...