Zoomy's thing

 Some things are universally understood in Britain, but surprisingly unknown in the rest of the world. I once described Blue Peter to a frie...

Here's another comic story that I really love. And I have to ask - it it just me who finds this six-page tale by "Beto" (Gilbe...

  In 1954, William Overgard took over as the artist of the "Steve Roper" newspaper comic strip. Overgard had previously tried and ...

 One of my most popular posts on this blog is the one about Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen . So let's talk about the gang who they to...

 I've never done a 'early comics work by writers of the Thundercats cartoon' blog about William Overgard, which is a shocking om...

 My life has been plagued by loathsome little girls! Deborahs, Hollys, bleuch! YouTube randomly recommended me the first episode of the fift...

 Did you know there's a website dedicated to Digitser? The 1990s Channel 4 Teletext video game page, famously hosted by The Man With A L...

 Ah, the Cambridge EGP, biggest and coolest othello tournament of the year. And I scraped the funds together to go to it, and it was a fanta...

 This is a real case of "Why did nobody tell me about this before?" I mean, if there's something everyone should know I would ...

 There are two things I want to write about, and each of them features a lion as the central character. So stay tuned tomorrow for the more ...

If there's one thing this blog emphatically isn't  about, it's linking to other, better blogs and telling my readers to go there...

 Or at least, I'm a fan of trivia about ancient arcade games. I'm rubbish at actually playing Donkey Kong, which they didn't hav...

 I was reminded of this classic comic today, couldn't remember whether I'd ever mentioned it on my blog, and after a quick search co...

 The road to the Microsoft Excel World Championship 2025 kicked off last Thursday, with the first of nine monthly competitions. It's fai...

An all-new podcast is available on the world wide web! Remember the interview I did a couple of years ago for "The Human Podcast"?...

 It's snowing as I write this 1 and I'm not a fan of snow, as I've mentioned many times before. Increases the likelihood of me ...

The Memory League World Championship is kicking off once more! I'm not in it, on account of not being good enough, but it's still ve...

I've been blogging here for a long time now. In fact, it's been more than twenty years, if you count the couple of silly things I po...

 I should write more about old comics I like but that my readers might not have heard of. It's all part of my plan to get people who rea...