VIZ Comic - The Dogs Bollocks

Viz Annuals #4

by Chris Donald (Editor)

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Genres: Comedy, Humor, Comics

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Chris Donald is the founder of, and one of the principal contributors to, the British comic magazine Viz. He attended West Jesmond Primary School, and then Heaton Comprehensive School, where he did not complete his A-levels, and in 1978 he began work as a clerical officer at the DHSS central office in Longbenton, Newcastle.

Chris, together with his brother Simon and a schoolfriend Jim Brownlow, set-up Viz in December 1979 from a bedroom in Newcastle. He was editor (or head of the "editorial cabinet") for many years but retired from day-to-day duties in 1999, and now only contributes occasional cartoons. He has since written a personal history of Viz magazine entitled Rude Kids.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rude, offensive and funny... Just delightful.

[Les Gehman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Viz appears to be the British equivalent of Mad Magazine, but dirtier. I would have give this compilation two stars, but I figured that I would have enjoyed it more 20 years ago (when it was printed) and if I were British. Still, it had some very funny bits, and, of course, a few misses. In some ways the cartoons reminded me of some of the American 'underground' comics of the late '60s and early '70s, in a good way.

[Derek Baldwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The obligatory mix of schoolboy humour, scatology, and rude words with some very clever satire of the popular media thrown in.

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely essential, though inevitably dated.