Discovery of the day: Futurama composer Christopher Tyng also did the music for the 1990 Baby-Sitters Club series

Researching a whole post about Ivy, and the original brief for the character was "a girl who wants to be as tough as Dennis or Minnie, but doesn't have the strength or maturity to carry it off", which this teaser is clearly referencing.

Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (small🧵)

No cuts noted to "Bart's Birthday" or "The Yellow Lotus". This could be a very short article I have at the end of this run.

Also a reminder for this evening's big television event.

Early evening repost! (I mention in the replies, but if you have a comic strip you'd like me to write about, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I almost certainly have examples of most strips in the big pile of comics in the spare room.)

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

A look back at a year where I spent quite a lot of time writing about classic British comics. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...

Reminder that E4's premiere of Season 36 begins at 8pm tomorrow night -- the first season to premiere on free-to-air TV and not Sky. (That sentence probably needs caveating more, but fuck it)

Bit of a long shot, but if anyone happens to have the issue of Buster dated 20th September 1986 they would be able to do me a massive and very easy favour

Bit of a long shot, but if anyone happens to have the issue of Buster dated 20th September 1986 they would be able to do me a massive and very easy favour

Beano #725, June 9, 1956

Found in Charity Shops: 27/12/25 edition

Vital research for a thing: What is the first thing you think of when you hear the words "cartoon cat and dog duo"?

Vital research for a thing: What is the first thing you think of when you hear the words "cartoon cat and dog duo"?

I've put contemporary Doctor Who into calendar date order. Did you know The Unicorn and the Wasp and The Interstellar Song Contest were both aired on the same day? Let me know if you spot any omissions/inaccuracies? feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2025/12/tran...

Really loved the new Asterix. The current team deserve a lot of credit for making the new volumes feel like a natural continuation of Goscinny/Uderzo/Anthea Bell whilst not falling back on nostalgia which it feels like they don't always get.

The best of my writing in 2025. Ben Elton on The Oxford Road Show, tracing the history of an old joke in Porridge, how the Daily Mirror slagging off Love Thy Neighbour ended up in the show itself, and Fawlty Towers recording schedules. What more could you ask for? www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/12/dirt...

Christmas has happened

Comics fact of the day: There were only 75 issues of Plug, but approximately 104 issues of the Beezer branded as 'The Beezer and Plug' after they merged.

One of the best recent Doctor Who blu-ray extras gets a broadcast showing on BBC4 tonight: Innes Lloyd. And it’s already on iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

@dirtyfeed.org I think watching the final task from last night's show, then reading an audience member's account of the bit they had to reshoot because the original version was unbroadcastable, might be the thing that finally gets you to love Taskmaster

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Just in case you’re one of the 5 people in the UK who’ve somehow never seen this www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Wi...

RIP Chris

Exclusive look at the newly re-edited Would I Lie to You? Christmas special

EVENING REPOST

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

A short piece of writing about a sticker album. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/12/stic...

Last six years of winners. Bill, Rose, Hamza, Ellie, Chris, and now Karen. Sometimes the loveliest people do actually get what they deserve. #Strictly

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

Comics-related thought of the day: You could get a really good round of Pointless out of the covers for the early issues of Classics From the Comics.

Comics-related thought of the day: You could get a really good round of Pointless out of the covers for the early issues of Classics From the Comics.

Not unexpected news, but this looks like confirmation that E4's forthcoming premiere of Season 36 of The Simpsons does not include the Disney+ exclusive eps. @wesleymead.bsky.social

Christmas Eve 1989, and it appears the The Archers did a festive episode told entirely from the point of view of the animals. Blimey.

Signature techniques of the British comics artist John Geering, Part 1 in an occasional series: The Rapid-Fire Double Take

The first four covers for the Misty Annuals from 1979-1982, with art by Shirley Bellwood.

Signature techniques of the British comics artist John Geering, Part 1 in an occasional series: The Rapid-Fire Double Take

In what was recently voted 'least interesting comics fact of all time', the title of Dandy Comic Library #248 was clearly changed at the last minute.

Yet another charity shop, yet another pile of old comics.