Viz celebrates its 30th birthday
Updated on 05 November 2009
A vulgar, sexist smut rag or a hilarious, unpretentious satire on the many tribes of Britain?
The adult comic Viz has now been going for thirty years.
In that time it has gone from being a homemade labour of love sold the in pubs of Newcastle, to a magazine that sold over a million copies per month in its heyday.
Nowadays Viz's sales are nowhere near as spectacular but are still respectable. But what magic element has kept it going for three decades?
Some people have even suggested the magazine could be used as a document of social record.
The Viz exhibition is on show at the Cartoon Museum in London until 24 January 2010.
