VIZ
VIZ is a popular British adult comic magazine. It was started in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1979 by Chris Donald and his brother Simon. What began as few pages, photocopied and sold to friends, became a publishing phenomenon.The comic features rude and tasteless gags and characters like:
- Sid the Sexist - a young man with no sexual experience who boasts of his success with women
- Roger Mellie (the man on the telly) - a foul-mouthed and violent TV presenter
- Spoilt Bastard - a fat, ungrateful boy who manipulates his weak-willed mother
- Biffa Bacon - a boy and his family, all of whom are violent psychopaths
- The Fat Slags - two young women with huge appetites for sex and chips
- Johnny Fartpants - a boy empowered with extreme flatulence
- Norbert Colon - an old miser
- The Modern Parents - and their long-suffering children
- Mr Logic - a serious young man with no sympathy for other humans
- Finbarr Saunders and his double entendres - a boy with a good ear for homophones
- Farmer Palmer - a paranoid farmer whose catch phrase is "Get orf moi laaaand!"
- Eight Ace - an alcoholic who drinks 'Ace' beer (eight cans for £1.49).
