Viz

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Rediscover an old favourite! Let some juvenile humour into your life with this classic read and treat yourself to the best toilet-reading on the planet. As funny as ever, Viz still has all your favourite characters, from Sid the Sexist to the Fat Slags, plus Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus, Letterbocks and much more.

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Viz magazine - related information

Viz is a popular British comic magazine which has been running since 1979.

Viz's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with incongruous language, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and either sexual or violent storylines. It also sends up tabloid newspapers, with mockeries of articles and letters pages. It features competitions and advertisements for overpriced 'limited edition' tat, such as a cat which 'shits its own weight in gold', as well as obsessions with half-forgotten celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s such as Shakin' Stevens and Rodney Bewes. Occasionally, it satirises current events and politicians, but has no particular political standpoint. Its success has led to the appearance of numerous rivals crudely copying the format Viz pioneered; none of them has managed seriously to challenge its popularity.

Some of Viz's comedic devices, for example, generating the illusion of an entire comic-strip 'universe' with a 'one-off' strip, often based on a surrealistic pun, were widely employed in the earlier and now-defunct American humour magazine National Lampoon, which was itself more or less a sophisticated version of Mad Magazine.

In a recently released coffee table book celebrating 25 years of Viz, cartoonist Graham Dury is quoted as saying: 'We pride ourselves on the fact that you're no cleverer when you've read Viz. You might have had a few laughs, but you've not learnt anything'.

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Publisher: Dennis Publishing Ltd

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