Viz UK - June 2013
English | HQ PDF | 52 pages | 42 MB
Viz is a popular British comic magazine
which has been running since 1979.
The comic's style parodies British comics of the post-war
period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with incongruous
language, crude 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. It once enjoyed being the third most popular
magazine in the UK,
