Tag archives for comics
A blast from the past: how AI failed me
Here’s the comic strip Blondie, by Dean Young & John Marshall, for the day of December 5, 2025: Doesn’t it remind you of anything? You must be too young then.…
I tried Inbox Comics, and I liked what I saw
A reader suggested I try Inbox Comics, a free and ad-free service that would send you daily the comics of your choice from a list of over 400 (currently, 439)…
Comics Kingdom Easy Browser
This is the sibling of the web version of the Comic Strip Browser for GoComics, which needed a counterpart for ComicsKingdom.com, which hosts the comics syndicated through King Features Syndicate,…
Comic Strip Browser in your browser!
Even myself, a huge fan of local, standalone apps, I have to admit that nowadays almost everything is a web app. And the Comic Strip Browser app, a PyQt6 software…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.3: new strips!
I released two new versions of my Comic Strip Browser one after another the same day. That's because 1.1.2 added 6 new strips, but 1.1.3 had to remove an older…
Comic Strip Browser v. 1.1.1: new features and new bugs!
Exactly three months ago, I wrote The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app! It was meant to introduce a PyQt6 Linux app for browsing a selection of…
The Brian Crane Interview
I happen to like all kinds of comics, and I mentioned Pickles, the creation of Brian Crane, both in my post about GoComics and in my post on the GoComics…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
Bypassing GoComics’ paywall
Some two weeks ago, I noticed that GoComics.com introduced a paywall, something like this: you display like 14 comics, then you're asked to pay. For fuck’s sake, that’s preposterous! So…
Christian Godard (1932–2024)
Un autre dernier des grands s’est éteint. Il s’agit de Christian Godard, scénariste et dessinateur, un titan de la BD franco-belge. Je reproduis ici le communiqué de la famille tant…
Les Français et les Suisses, parmi les plus débiles Européens
L'énigme L'autre jour, ou plus exactement le 8 novembre, sur le groupe FB Les Amis de la bande dessinée, le groupe !, Jean Brouillard publie l'épisode « Jean Richard enquête » paru dans…
Întâmpinând cu tristețe Festivalul Internațional de Benzi Desenate Istorice Brașov
Reproduc în cele ce urmează o postare pusă pe Facebook aici, referitoare nu atât la festival în sine, căci tema festivalului nu este Pif. Cum însă Mircea Arapu este invitat…
Me désenchanter, c’est ma vocation éternelle
Ce n'est pas dans mes habitudes d'être (trop) fan d'un homme ou d'un mouvement politique, mais j'ai, ou j'avais mes affinités et des gens que je trouvais plutôt prometteurs. Eh…