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Ignatius Manatee's Dixieland Jazz Band - A group of manatees who are a jazz band but are often having their gigs stolen by a group of Ragtime playing dugongs, but always get the last laugh.

Salvatore Attardo (18 March 2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p.478. ISBN 978-1-4833-6471-1 . Retrieved 30 July 2015.Luvvie Darling – a melodramatic and self-important thespian who is completely talentless. He presents himself as an A-list actor but is only offered very minor (and ultimately humiliating) roles. Darling is depicted as an exaggerated parody of old-school British Shakespearian stage actors: pompous, bombastic, profligate and pretentious in his use of literary quotes, and habitually referring to famous, real-life actors in familiar terms (such as "Dear old Larry" for Sir Laurence Olivier). Darling's name is a pun on the insincere and over-affectionate terms, "luvvie" and "darling" that actors and actresses are stereotyped as employing with each other. (for a good example see 'Absolutely Fabulous' starring Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders) Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of "Viz" (Chris Donald, 2004) (aka: The Inside Story of Viz: Rude Kids) ISBN 0-00-719096-4 Fat Sod – a one-off greedy character who steals a large pie from the windowsill of one Farmer Palmer (possibly the same character described above, despite physical dissimilarity), only to be ruthlessly shot dead and baked in a pie by Palmer, who hides inside the false pie initially stolen to do so. Barny the Complete Bastard - A strip featured in The Big Stiff One annual about some guy getting falsely accused of doing bad things for no reason. Joe, 90 - A once-only spoof of the iconic character. The World Intelligence Agency decides to recruit Joe for a new mission, despite the fact he is now in his 90s and extremely frail. He is briefed on the dangerous mission (despite such a venture obviously being both physically and mentally beyond him) and placed in the 'Big Rat', only for him to die while his abilities are transferred. The strip ends with the agency deciding to call International Rescue.

Reel by Real: "Bags of Fun With Buster" ". Chalkhills. 7 March 2009. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011 . Retrieved 28 March 2010.

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As the magazine's popularity grew, the bedroom became too small and production moved to a nearby Jesmond office. Donald also hired another freelance artist, Simon Thorp, whose work had impressed him. For over a decade, these four would be the nucleus of Viz.

an old miser. In one strip, Colon shared top billing with hopeless ventriloquist Boswell Boyce ('he throws his voice') and wound up in a lunatic asylum; in another strip he went on a blind date only to find the dating agency had fixed him up with his own mother ("Oh turds! It's that tightwad son of mine!"), a dead ringer for Norbert only wearing a (clearly labelled) NHS wig. Afternoon tea with Mr Kiplin – About Mr Kiplin (a parody of cake manufacturer Mr Kipling) inviting someone over for tea but because he eats so much cake, he eventually vomits for the whole night. That we dwell too long in the material world and need to think a bit more about our yins and our yangs, man. But unless you have clawed your way up from Eton and Oxford, or unless you are a poor little rich boy like Rainbow Dave's eco-chum Zac Goldsmith, who inherited daddy's millions and doesn't actually have to earn a living, then that place is low on a list that has crime, housing, health care, education and jobs all some way ahead of it. the schizophrenic long - distance driver of an articulated lorry, who murders female hitchhikers and dumps their bodies by the roadside.Colin the Amiable Crocodile – strips centred on a small crocodile named Colin. In one strip he was shot by a birdwatcher because he said "hello" to the man. The character also appeared later on front covers of other issues, such as with a skinhead who tells people to buy the comic or he shoots the croc. Overtones of Loopy De Loop Il Duce, Old Duce – A strip featuring Benito Mussolini who wants the people of the town to bow down to his fascist dictatorship, but his hippie father keeps ruining his day. Little Plumber – Spoof of Beano comic strip Little Plum, in which the American Indian is a jobbing [ clarification needed] plumber. Try telling the former Labour voter who has been driven into the arms of the BNP that what should really concern him is what man is doing to the environment. Rainbow Dave's Tories are not of this world. Fretting about excessive materialism has its place. Desperately Unfunny Dan – parody of barrel-chested Desperate Dan who tries too hard to amuse people with his superhuman feats of strength.