Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Viz comic, Viz comic - History, Viz comic - Regular Features, Viz comic - Featured Strips, Viz comic - Spoof News Stories, Viz comic - Letterbocks, Viz comic - Top Tips, Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions, Viz comic - Photo Strips, Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Some of the characters have had their own television series. They are: The Fat Slags Roger Mellie (featuring the voices of Peter Cook and Harry Enfield) Sid The Sexist Billy The Fish A computer game using many Viz characters was produced in 1991. A movie based on The Fat Slags was produced in 2004. [1] ...

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Viz comic, Viz comic - History, Viz comic - Regular Features, Viz comic - Featured Strips, Viz comic - Spoof News Stories, Viz comic - Letterbocks, Viz comic - Top Tips, Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions, Viz comic - Photo Strips, Viz comic - Viz in other media

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A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. Comic books are often called comics for short. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous, and in fact its dramatic seriousness varies widely. The term "comics" in this context does not refer to comic strips (such as Peanuts or Dilbert). In the last quarter of the 20th century, greater acceptance of the comics form among the general reading populace coincided with a great ...

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• Comic book - The comic book in the United States of America
• Comic book - Underground comics
• Comic book - Independent and alternative comics
• Comic book - Decline of serial comic-book format
• Comic book - The comics of Europe
• Comic book - Franco-Belgian comics
• Comic book - The British comic
• Comic book - Italian comics
• Comic book - Other European comics
• Comic book - The graphic novel
• Comic book - Regional categories
• Comic book - Other Forms
• Comic book - Genres
• Comic book - Some particularly notable comic books
• Comic book - Comics - the sequential art form in general
• Comic book - Comic book awards
• Comic book - Miscellaneous
• Comic book - Lists

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Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. Originally used to illustrate caricatures and to entertain through the use of amusing and trivial stories, it has by now evolved into a literary medium with many subgenres. The most common forms of printed comics are comic strips (most commonly four panels long) in newspapers and magazines, and longer comic stories in comic books ...

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• Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology
• Comics - History
• Comics - 15th–18th centuries
• Comics - The 19th century
• Comics - The 20th century
• Comics - Artistic medium
• Comics - Art styles
• Comics - The language
• Comics - Forms within comics
• Comics - Cartoon
• Comics - Comic strip
• Comics - Comic book
• Comics - Webcomic
• Comics - Instructional comics
• Comics - Storyboard
• Comics - Minicomic
• Comics - The creation of comics
• Comics - Comic book creation
• Comics - Comic strip creation
• Comics - Cartoon creation
• Comics - Tools of the trade
• Comics - Comics awards
• Comics - United States
• Comics - United Kingdom
• Comics - Canada
• Comics - France
• Comics - Germany
• Comics - Italy
• Comics - Spain
• Comics - Sweden
• Comics - Japan
• Comics - Regional categories
• Comics - Comics movements
• Comics - Miscellaneous
• Comics - Lists
• Comics - Bibliography
• Comics - Notes

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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: The Pyramid of Light, known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Pyramid of Light (遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ　光のピラミッド/Yu-Gi-Oh! Dueru Monsutazu Hikari no Piramiddo) is a film based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. The director of this film is Ryosuke Takahashi. The characters and naming are straight out of the English version ...

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• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light - Characters in the movie
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light - Voice actors
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light - Japanese version
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light - English version
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light - External link

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Alice 19th (ありす19th; Arisu Naintīnsu) is a manga written by Yū Watase, creator of the popular manga series Ceres: Celestial Legend and Fushigi Yūgi, all three of which were serialized in the weekly manga magazine Shōjo Comic. Much like her previous works, it is a shōjo manga; appealing to the female readers with a heroine who must face down great odds and survive in a world that is much harsher than it ought to be. Yet unlike her previous works which were strongly influenced by Chinese culture and history ...

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• Alice 19th - Plot
• Alice 19th - Characters
• Alice 19th - List of Lotis Words
• Alice 19th - List of Maram Words

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The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, was launched in 1982. The editorial slant of both papers is towards social and political conservatism. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the middle-market and the first to sell 1 million copies a day. Originally broadsheet, the Mail switched to the tabloid format in which it is published today on May 3, 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding (on t ...

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• Daily Mail - History
• Daily Mail - Editorial stance
• Daily Mail - Criticism
• Daily Mail - Moral Issues
• Daily Mail - Immigration
• Daily Mail - Pseudoscience
• Daily Mail - Conservative appearance
• Daily Mail - Satire
• Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers
• Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers

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Homer (Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad (Ἰλιάς) and the Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια). In antiquity, he was sometimes credited with the entire Epic Cycle, which included further poems on the Trojan War as well as the Theban poems about Oedipus and his sons. Other works, such as the corpus of Homeric Hymns, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War," Βατραχομυομαχία), and the Margites were also attributed to h ...

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• Homer - The Homeric Question
• Homer - Ancient Accounts of Homer
• Homer - Homeric studies
• Homer - Ancient philology
• Homer - 18th century
• Homer - 19th century
• Homer - Homeric dialect
• Homer - Homeric style
• Homer - Historicity of the Iliad
• Homer - Literature
• Homer - Commentaries
• Homer - Homeric Question
• Homer - Homeric dialect
• Homer - Editions
• Homer - English Translations

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In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon or demoness is a supernatural being that has generally been described as a malevolent spirit but outside Christian circles was viewed as a sort of elemental spirit: compare daemon and djinn. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may be conjured and insecurely controlled. The "good" demon in recent use is largely a literary device (eg: Maxwell's demon). In common language, "demonizing" one's opponent is an aspersion. As the Indo-Iranian Avestan and Vedic traditions and also other branches of Indo-European mythologies show, the not ...

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• Demon - Etymology
• Demon - Demons in ancient Persia
• Demon - Demons in the Hebrew Bible
• Demon - Influences from Chaldean mythology
• Demon - In Jewish rabbinic literature
• Demon - The King and Queen of Demons
• Demon - In the New Testament and Christianity
• Demon - In Christian myth and legend
• Demon - War in Heaven
• Demon - Demonologies
• Demon - In pre-Islamic Arab culture
• Demon - In Islam
• Demon - In Hinduism
• Demon - Demons in other cultures and religions
• Demon - Demons in Hellenistic Neopaganism
• Demon - In art literature and television
• Demon - In science
• Demon - In games
• Demon - External link

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XTC is an influential pop rock band from Swindon, England. XTC - History. XTC - The early years 1972–77. First coming together in 1972, the core duo of Andy Partridge (guitars, vocals) and Colin Moulding (bass, vocals) went through numerous band names (including The Helium Kidz and Star Park) over the next five years. Drawing influence from the New York Dolls and the emerging New York punk scene, they played glam rock with homemade costumes and slowly built up a following. Dru ...

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• XTC - History
• XTC - The early years 1972–77
• XTC - The touring years 1977–82
• XTC - The studio years 1982–1992
• XTC - Going independent 1992–present
• XTC - Discography
• XTC - Albums
• XTC - The Dukes of Stratosphear
• XTC - Singles & EPs
• XTC - Compilations
• XTC - Other notes
• XTC - Related artists and collaborations

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VIZ Media - Manga. Full article: List of manga published by VIZ Media At various times in its history, Viz has published manga under the Viz Comics, Viz Communications, Viz LLC, Shonen Jump, PULP Manga, Shonen Jump Advanced, and Shojo Beat imprints. Amongst some of their more popular titles are manga series. Case Closed (Detective Conan) Ceres, Celestial Legend Dragon Ball series Excel SagaSee also:

VIZ Media, VIZ Media - Books published by Viz, VIZ Media - Manga, VIZ Media - Ani-Manga, VIZ Media - Novels, VIZ Media - Magazines published by Viz, VIZ Media - Anime published by Viz, VIZ Media - Other Media

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For the most part, most manga translation publishers have passed over the offbeat works showcased in Garo in favor of more mainstream, action/adventure and romance stories from the major publishers. Similarly, scanlation translators have mostly overlooked experimental fare. However, some Garo comics are available in English. In the early 1990s, Viz Comics (now VIZ Media) published some of Sanpei Shirato's Kamui under the title Legend of Kamui. More recently, Blast Books has published books of avant-garde ma ...

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Garo, Garo - History, Garo - Styles and Influence, Garo - Garo in English, Garo - Mangaka associated with Garo

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These magazines are published monthly, unlike their Japanese counterpart which is published weekly. Weekly Shonen Jump - United States Shonen Jump. In 2002, Shueisha announced a partnership with Viz Communications (now Viz Media), a purveyor of anime and manga in the United States, to distribute a monthly version of Shonen Jump in that country. In its first issue (January 2003), it sold almost 300,000 copies, making it the top-selling comic book of any kind in the U.S. for that time period. T ...

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Weekly Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Jump - History, Weekly Shonen Jump - Shonen Jump worldwide, Weekly Shonen Jump - United States Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Jump - BANZAI!, Weekly Shonen Jump - Swedish Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Jump - Norwegian Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Jump - Popular comics featured in the Japanese Shonen Jump

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The Newcastle-based adult comic Viz used Tipton as a perennial butt of jokes throughout the 1990s, involving a fictitious councillor, Hugo Guthrie. Guthrie may, however, have been based on the real inter-war figure of Councillor Doughty who forbade any more pubs to open until one was opened carrying his name — now renamed the Pie Factory — and apparently when asked by his Town Clerk whether the then Council should buy a urinal for the town park, instructed him to buy two so we can breed from them. Tipton was described by the BBC during the 2000 West Bromwich West by-election as; "o ...

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Tipton, Tipton - History, Tipton - Outsiders opinion of Tipton, Tipton - Famous people, Tipton - The Villages of Tipton, Tipton - Education

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Comics as an art form represents many different forms and publication formats, not all of which are physical. Comics - Cartoon. The cartoon, originally an artist's prepartory drawings, is considered by some scholars, notably R.C. Harvey, as a form of comics. Although a singular image, it has been argued that since the cartoon both combines words with image and constructs a narrative, it merits inclusion as a form of comics. Cartoons typically take one of three forms, that of the gag cartoon, the editorial cartoon or the political cartoon. ...

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Comics, Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology, Comics - History, Comics - 15th–18th centuries, Comics - The 19th century, Comics - The 20th century, Comics - Artistic medium, Comics - Art styles, Comics - The language, Comics - Forms within comics, Comics - Cartoon, Comics - Comic strip, Comics - Comic book, Comics - Webcomic, Comics - Instructional comics, Comics - Storyboard, Comics - Minicomic, Comics - The creation of comics, Comics - Comic book creation, Comics - Comic strip creation, Comics - Cartoon creation, Comics - Tools of the trade, Comics - Comics awards, Comics - United States, Comics - United Kingdom, Comics - Canada, Comics - France, Comics - Germany, Comics - Italy, Comics - Spain, Comics - Sweden, Comics - Japan, Comics - Regional categories, Comics - Comics movements, Comics - Miscellaneous, Comics - Lists, Comics - Bibliography, Comics - Notes

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Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer, with only the British comic (during the inter-war period through the 1970s) and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles (although, Japan outweighs America currently in overall sales by a vast margin). The majority of all comic books in the U.S. are marketed at younger teenagers, though the market also produces work for general as well as more mature audiences. The history of the comic ...

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Comic book, Comic book - The comic book in the United States of America, Comic book - Underground comics, Comic book - Independent and alternative comics, Comic book - Decline of serial comic-book format, Comic book - The comics of Europe, Comic book - Franco-Belgian comics, Comic book - The British comic, Comic book - Italian comics, Comic book - Other European comics, Comic book - The graphic novel, Comic book - Regional categories, Comic book - Other forms, Comic book - Genres, Comic book - Some particularly notable comic books, Comic book - Comics - the sequential art form in general, Comic book - Comic book awards, Comic book - Miscellaneous, Comic book - Lists

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Since the invention of the comic book format in the 1930s, the United States has been the leading producer, with only the British comic (during the inter-war period through the 1970s) and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles (although, Japan outweighs America currently in overall sales by a vast margin). The majority of all comic books in the U.S. are marketed at younger teenagers, thoug ...

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Comic book, Comic book - The comic book in the United States of America, Comic book - Underground comics, Comic book - Independent and alternative comics, Comic book - Decline of serial comic-book format, Comic book - The comics of Europe, Comic book - Franco-Belgian comics, Comic book - The British comic, Comic book - Italian comics, Comic book - Other European comics, Comic book - The graphic novel, Comic book - Regional categories, Comic book - Other Forms, Comic book - Genres, Comic book - Some particularly notable comic books, Comic book - Comics - the sequential art form in general, Comic book - Comic book awards, Comic book - Miscellaneous, Comic book - Lists

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History of the British comic - 19th Century. In the 19th century, story papers, also known as "penny dreadfuls", served as entertainment for British children. Comic strips began to emerge slowly. Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, (1884), is reputed to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character, and the first British comic as would be recognised today. In 1890 two more comic magazines debuted to the British public, Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips, both published by Amalgamated Pres ...

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History of the British comic, History of the British comic - Overview, History of the British comic - History, History of the British comic - 19th Century, History of the British comic - 20th century, History of the British comic - 21st century, History of the British comic - The Reprint Market, History of the British comic - List of British Comics

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Comics as an art form represents many different forms and publication formats, not all of which are physical. Comics - Cartoon. Main article: Cartoon The cartoon, originally an artist's prepartory drawings, is considered by some scholars, notably R.C. Harvey, as a form of comics. Although a singular image, it has been argued that since the cartoon both combines words with image and constructs a narrative, it merits inclusion as a form of comics. Cartoons typically take one of three forms, that of the gag cartoon, t ...

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Comics, Comics - Controversy regarding the terminology, Comics - History, Comics - 15th–18th centuries, Comics - The 19th century, Comics - The 20th century, Comics - Artistic medium, Comics - Art styles, Comics - The language, Comics - Forms within comics, Comics - Cartoon, Comics - Comic strip, Comics - Comic book, Comics - Webcomic, Comics - Instructional comics, Comics - Storyboard, Comics - Minicomic, Comics - The creation of comics, Comics - Comic book creation, Comics - Comic strip creation, Comics - Cartoon creation, Comics - Tools of the trade, Comics - Computer generated comics, Comics - Comics awards, Comics - United States, Comics - United Kingdom, Comics - Canada, Comics - France, Comics - Germany, Comics - Italy, Comics - Spain, Comics - Sweden, Comics - Japan, Comics - Regional categories, Comics - Comics movements, Comics - Miscellaneous, Comics - Lists, Comics - Bibliography, Comics - Notes

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