Christopher Wickham
@cwickham.bsky.social
Quite a fast reader. cwickham.blogspot.com
Brand new on Dirty Feed: Mary Tyler Moore's long-misunderstood 1978 variety series, Mary. Part One: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/some... Part Two: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Three: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Four: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/some...
In a display of questionable forward thinking, a series of articles on D. C. Thomson's more obscure comics concludes with the one that contains one of their most racist characters. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/08/crac...
Project Aon now have a remake of the ZX Spectrum version of Flight from the Dark available! zxspectrum.projectaon.org
ZX Spectrum Editions: Project Aon
The classic gamebooks as complete ZX Spectrum adventures. Download for 48K, 128K, +3 and Next, or play online.
zxspectrum.projectaon.org
In a display of questionable forward thinking, a series of articles on D. C. Thomson's more obscure comics concludes with the one that contains one of their most racist characters. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/08/crac...
Apologies if I didn't get back to anyone or anything in the last few days, getting a new monitor delivered proved... trickier than expected
@johndkemp.bsky.social Are you the same John Kemp who wrote Minnie the Minx, Ball Boy, The Germs and Rasher for the Beano?
An unnecessarily close inspection of the maps used for a role-playing game from 1984. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/08/song...
Latest Beano has the Bash Street Kids go to parliament...
This post will not appear for a few weeks, but I am confident it meets the expectations set by its title.
Off on family holiday tomorrow, if you need to contact me I probably won't see it until next Saturday (I realise that unless you need to urgently know about some aspect of the history of the Beano, this is unlikely)
Off on family holiday tomorrow, if you need to contact me I probably won't see it until next Saturday (I realise that unless you need to urgently know about some aspect of the history of the Beano, this is unlikely)
Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially
An early evening repost for anyone who hasn't spent their Sunday reading about a comic from the early seventies but would like to.
Christopher Wickham@cwickham.bsky.social · 4w agoAnother mayfly of British humour comics is pinned and mounted to the wall. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/07/buzz...
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
John was very proud of his logo, so this is what I do if I sign Unbound copies now.
Another mayfly of British humour comics is pinned and mounted to the wall. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/07/buzz...
"King Olav! Roald Amundsen! Liv Ullmann! Edvard Munch! Thor Heyerdahl! Henrik Ibsen! Edvard Grieg! Morten Harket! ... Can you hear me? Your boys took one hell of a beating!"
Occurs to me I should probably have used the football to plug this thing I wrote a few months back about Owen Goal at some point cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...
That Cannonball Kid Sure Scores a Mean Owen Goal
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."
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The time when Luis Suarez was so well known, there was a Beano strip portraying him as a flesh-eating zombie.
Annotated fourth and final map of the GrailQuest book "Gateway of Doom": All asterisked rooms are teleport traps, and entering them will immediately teleport you to the room indicated. (184, 176 and 167 all teleport you back to earlier levels.)
Childhood memory inexplicably stuck in my head #86: "Frogs were never good at spelling"
