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I totally agree with you, awesome comics! I was so surprised to see in the first lines of the Wikipedia page that "Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance
by jicea 8y ago
I totally agree with you, awesome comics! I was so surprised to see in the first lines of the Wikipedia page that "Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh.". I find this attribution quite controversial, even if Enki Bilal is cited later in the article. A better wording could have been "Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by French artist Enki Bilal’s comics."
- Hoasi 8y agoIndeed what Rubingh did was implementing Enki Bilal's idea in real life competitions. The idea of the sport itself is explicit in the Nikopol comics: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&q=enki+bilal+chess+boxing+&chips=q:enki+bilal+chess+boxing,online_chips:froid+equateur&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEvqCb8InbAhUQEVAKHYiuA9wQ4lYIJygB&biw=1259&bih=646&dpr=2 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&q=enki+bilal+ch...