Category Archives: Books

The week that was 10-2025

Posted on March 9, 2025 by JJS

🇬🇧 A retired person’s delight (mostly) Ah, another week in the life of a happily retired individual. A week that was neither too adventurous nor entirely uneventful—just the right balance of leisure, technology-induced epiphanies, and the occasional humbling experience. Let’s … Continue reading →

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A comic book adventure in Narbonne 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Posted on September 13, 2024 by JJS
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Nouveau bouquin / New book 🇫🇷🇬🇧

Posted on August 26, 2024 by JJS
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Neil Young’s book 🇬🇧

Posted on August 24, 2024 by JJS
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Number 40

Posted on October 27, 2023 by JJS

The latest (40th) Astérix is out nationwide since yesterday. I just picked my copy up and will enjoy reading it straight away by the pool in the warm autumn 🍂 sun ☀️.

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BD

Posted on May 24, 2023 by JJS

Always on the lookout for new comic books

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The Rabbi’s cat

Posted on April 22, 2022 by JJS

Just obtained the 1st volume out of 9 from the author Joann Sfar. It is all about A rabbi’s cat learning to speak after he eats a parrot and asking to convert to Judaism. Fairly witty. I think I shall … Continue reading →

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Cartoon time

Posted on April 17, 2022 by JJS

Still working on my comic book and it takes me a long time to transform original pictures. But time I have, so no problem

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Richard or Frédéric

Posted on October 30, 2021 by JJS

It is not clear what the diminutive Ric actually stands for Ric Hochet is a French-Belgian comic book series created by the scriptwriter A.-P. Duchâteau and the cartoonist Tibet, whose first volume was published in September 1963 by Le Lombard. … Continue reading →

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Complete

Posted on October 27, 2021 by JJS

When I purchased number 39 and latest published album a couple of weeks ago, I realised I was missing number 10 and number 35 in my collection. It is no longer the case since this morning. On top of that … Continue reading →

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