2016 is set to go down in history as the year that Viz released another annual. This years compilation, The Bookies Pencil, is a magnificent collection of the best strips, features, spoof ads and stories from the nations favourite humour mag. Editor Hampton Doubleday has taken issues 232-241 and discarded all the dross, leaving just the cream for his readers to savour, including
Cartoons: The Fat Slags, Roger Mellie, Mrs Brady, Sid the Sexist and many more. Regular Columns: Letterbocks, Top Tips and Tony Parsehole. Informative Features: Whos Who at a Tabloid Newspaper, Believe It or Not about Pianos and What Can You Spot on the Motorway. Exciting Adventures: Roys Dad of the Rovers, The Receptionist of Dr Van Helsing and The Lapdancing Nit Nurse of Greyturrets School.
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"Viz, The Bookies Pencil is my tip for this year. Its the odds-on favourite to romp home by a head in this years best seller stakes. -- John McCririck
Viz Comic is an adult British comic that, since its inception in 1979, has carved out a unique niche in the landscape of British humour. Key to its continued success is its mixture of memorable comic characters, spoof news articles, fake adverts and regular features such as Letterbocks, Top Tips and Vizs own dictionary of slang, Rogers Profanisaurus.
Characters like The Fat Slags, Sid the Sexist and foul-mouthed Roger Mellie (the Man on the Telly) have become cultural icons in their own right, and Vizs unique comic voice has left an indelible mark on British popular culture, with its influence felt across all media. Despite the comics self-effacing slogan that its not as funny as it used to be, Viz continues to remain a beloved national institution, just like Broadmoor Hospital for the Criminally Insane, the Porton Down Chemical Weapons Research Facility, and the Royal family.
