Viz Highlights

[jobotic]

Fantastic (never heard "dunky" before though)

[Jittlebags]

Dunky, Jizzbag, Jubber Ronny. Sheer poetry all of them.

[PowerButchi]

"A dunky, and it's full of jitler" from a Jack Black years ago is the greatest sentence I've ever read.

[Jittlebags]

I think my favourite is from the Rotating Chin Men - "I couldn't possibly crown a Queen who's eyebrows are all matted with spunk. It could be unconstitutional".
In fact I think it's one of my favourite strips, maybe along with 'Capain Oates, the Polar Explorer who loves exploring his own pole.'.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Vibrating Bum-faced Goats is another one of his classics



"That's not what vibrating goat keeping is all about."

[SpiderChrist]

That Gilbert Ratchet strip.

Glorious.

[the science eel]

He's a genius, that fella.

What's the name of the dude he sort of imitates, style-wise? the Beano (?) man? Dudley Watkins?

[stonkers]

He's a genius, that fella.

What's the name of the dude he sort of imitates, style-wise? the Beano (?) man? Dudley Watkins?

Yeah it's a general Beano / Dandy take off but it's very Dudley Watkins

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

This cropped up on twitter, so grim.

Fucking hell

[madhair60]

Started this the other day: https://twitter.com/VizNoContext

[Johnboy]

Started this the other day: https://twitter.com/VizNoContext

This is great, well done.

[Pink Gregory]

Harold and Fred, they make ladies dead!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

This is great, well done.

Aye

[Blumf]

Harold and Fred, they make ladies dead!

Day by day, regretting not having this mug:

[sheddyian]

He's a genius, that fella.

What's the name of the dude he sort of imitates, style-wise? the Beano (?) man? Dudley Watkins?

There's more than a bit of Leo Baxendale in his style as well. And the inspiration for Gilbert Ratchet isnt hard to spot in Baxendale's Clever Dick.

[gib]

Baxendale's Clever Dick.

quick image search for this and the first one i looked at was

[Ferris]

Started this the other day: https://twitter.com/VizNoContext

These are really good.

Particularly laughed at

[sheddyian]

quick image search for this and the first one i looked at was

(...)

That looks like a later cartoon of Clever Dick, drawn by Martin Baxendale. The earlier Leo Baxendale ones are better in my opinion. There's the feel of the earlier Martin Baxendale ones in there, but not quite the same.

(I think Leo and Martin are Father & son, but may be wrong)

But what do I know? I tried to insert an image of a Leo Baxendale Clever Dick in my earlier post and I failed.

[Blumf]

"Napoleon Dog"?

[BeardFaceMan]

There's more than a bit of Leo Baxendale in his style as well. And the inspiration for Gilbert Ratchet isnt hard to spot in Baxendale's Clever Dick.

Jones was on the Rule Of Three podcast discussing his love of Leo Baxendale, made me go out and get the Willy The Kid compilations.

[pupshaw]

Jones was on the Rule Of Three podcast discussing his love of Leo Baxendale, made me go out and get the Willy The Kid compilations.

I gave a copy of "It's a funny business" to a friend once, and when he died I wish I had got it back.

The best Baxendale is the late 50's Bash Street Kids, but at the same time he was doing Little Plum, the Three Bears and Minnie the Minx.
I was very familiar with all these strips when I was little, but a few years later I bought a collection of Beanos from 1960,
when he might have been still doing all 4 strips every week.
I don't have them anymore, but I remember one strip where you see Teacher's car. It has a big wind-up key sticking out of the side
It's such a cliche joke, but it's pulled off so brilliantly in a tiny, tiny space in a strip packed with little jokes.

[the]

Jones was on the Rule Of Three podcast discussing his love of Leo Baxendale, made me go out and get the Willy The Kid compilations.

I'm not into comics at all, but that discussion did resonate with me as I was introduced to the Willy The Kid Book 2 when I was about 10 and had a similar reaction to the mad hilariousness of it.

The Davey Jones episode of Rule Of Three is incredibly satisfying, for anyone who hasn't heard it. Episode

There's also something of interest in the comments here

[sheddyian]

A few years back, Davy Jones did a Viz strip in a very Baxendale style.

I remember letting out an audible "ooh" as I saw it, it felt very nostalgic. But I don't remember what it was.

[Gurke and Hare]

As great as Gilbert Ratchet is, I think Tinribs is even better.



Poor old Mr Snodworthy.

[Pink Gregory]

He makes the best pain noises - "GEEP!"

also love how as time goes on the persistence of teachers with gowns and mortarboards becomes sillier and sillier. 

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

The cock and ball torture of Mr Snodworthy is something I've associated with Viz for as long as I can remember. Bless his cottons.

[madhair60]

[the]

Doesn't that one go on to say something like 'you're so thick you don't obey the laws of perspective', and 'I think they might've done this joke on Father Ted'?

[ajsmith2]

Enjoyed Britpop Pop Bri in the new one.

[justin_bennett]

Enjoyed Britpop Pop Bri in the new one.

Yes!  Had a cringe at that and realised how many late-period Oasis tracks I am somehow aware of.  Farmer / Healey innit?