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Christopher Wickham
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Quite a fast reader. cwickham.blogspot.com
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A look back at all the least terrible things written by me in 2024. cwickham.blogspot.com/2024/12/best...
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Brand new on Dirty Feed: just how reliable are Bob Monkhouse's memories of The Golden Shot?

www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/poor...
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Also an at-a-glance guide to girls' comics I couldn't seem to make work somehow, but definitely want to pick up again at some point...
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Some excerpts from a timeline of Fleetway comic mergers I started writing, but had to put on the backburner because it was making my brain hurt.
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Some excerpts from a timeline of Fleetway comic mergers I started writing, but had to put on the backburner because it was making my brain hurt.
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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happy doctor who day
"The man who makes the noise of the TARDIS" - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
YouTube video by knifedog
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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HERE WE GO, LADS!

The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!

HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!

#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho
It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link:
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.

I'm quite pleased with this one...

www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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On Doctor Who Day here is, once again, the best thing ever to appear in Doctor Who Magazine
November 23, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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
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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
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
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
@docwallace.bsky.social Can I have your email address for something?

(Probably quickest to email me, address is on my Blogger profile)
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 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".
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dad died this evening, will probably be offline for a while, much love to you all x
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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
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 #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
A scintillating piece of writing on statistics in solo adventure gamebooks. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/11/stat...
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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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
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two vast and trunkless legs
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 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.
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
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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
YouTube video by iotaman5
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
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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.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM