"Morrissey sparks furore over Bush" (large images ahoy)

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"He has the right to say anything he wishes. It just sounds so much like Osama," wrote Lee Hempfling from Phoenix, Arizona.

Of course.

But to improve the mood, courtesy of Viz, "Oor Morrissie":

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/news/2004/images/morrissie.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Great!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

... but Morrissey isn't Scottish!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Admittedly though, Rod Stewart never lived on an Island of Death!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It being Scottish is what makes it good.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

great! somebody find that one about elton john with the platinum arse that shits jewels.

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

What the fuck? I am laughing too hard at the caricature to even start to figure out why he's Scottish or what the hell daffodils sticking out of his ass has to do with anything.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of Viz's humour comes from references to old DC Thompson comic strips, that's a parody of "Oor Wullie".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The first frame in the third row is fucking genius. Put a mic in Morrissie's left hand there, and it's an album cover.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Viz caricature vs. the Great Pop Things caricatures (example below, though in fact this is fans rather than The Man here, but it's the same idea as shown in oodles of strips):

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/news/1999/images/morrissey-lightbulb.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(he's Scottish because it's riffing on Oor Willie, a famous homely comic strip from Dundee's scary D.C. Thomson corporation)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Viz caricature is much much funnier.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'Wullie' - sorry.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

For reference, Oor Willie on his bucket:

http://www.geoffchandler2.fsnet.co.uk/chandler/gcgraphics/willieno1.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Willie or Wullie? I'm seeing it listed both ways...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oor Wil/Wullie again:

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/biocentre/chips/EMImages/chipslogo.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

He's always been Oor Wullie as I remember...

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing funny about the Great Pop Things one is the fat Morrissey on the far right.

(this is not an attempt to reignite the is-Morrissey-a-BNP-sympathiser debate)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think my favourite Viz strip was an episode of Jack Black and his dog Silver: the Christmas Pudding Mystery, where at the end, once the local copper has shot the vicar for having a pudding, they unmask him and it's Hitler!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ha why is dc thompson scary? i've always thought of it as 'cosy'

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember the illicit thrill of reading viz the first few times, and the 'complex' feelings aroused by seeing the same illustrators i read in topper/beezer/dandy/whizzer & chips, but with, er, very rude words

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh? Were some of them the same guys?

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, how bizarre.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody left DC Thompson on good terms. It's like the WWF.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose it follows; I love the classic comic style endings, like in Tubby Johnson, where when he wins the three-legged race he gets a cake... But it's a cake of soap!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason, my favourite Viz strip was a one off called 'Billy's Fridge', involving a boy called Billy and his fridge which he wheeled everywhere. He made himself very useful storing things for people but then came unstuck in a mix up between some sausages and a severed limb.

I guess my favourite regulars were the Pathetic Sharks.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I never liked the rude stuff much.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post to dom
blimey

how do you know this?

― de, Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The rude ones were never that funny; although, Frankenstein's cock was a scream. Mainly the famous ones weren't funny but they did recognize this... They had a poll once; you had to vote for your least favourite (except Billy the Fish cause that's obvious).

I used to laugh just at some of the titles in the Billy's Fridge style: Phil's Spectre, Herman's Hermit and Matthew's Bannister!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, they're supposed to be Morrissey fans, not Morrisseys. Even the fat one isn't so funny now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That said, it reminds me of starting university.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That's funny. I was about to say that my first experience of unabashed class snobbery was in my first term at university, when some bloke I was in a play with was moaning about how appalling the Viz imitators such as Zit were.

"This is what always happens when the proles get hold of something - they miss the point and completely fuck it up," he said.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Much Viz discussion on these threads:

VIZ -- fish wrapping or klassic komix?

Which Viz character are you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

God, I hate Viz.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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