Viz The Bookie`s Pencil 2016 Adult comic cartoon book Annual British rare collectable

Viz The Bookie's Pencil 2016 Adult comic cartoon book Annual British rare collectable

Dennis Publishing Limited (January 1, 2016) full color with 159 pages, large book slightly larger then an A4 size book.

2016 is set to go down in history as the year that Viz released another annual. This year's compilation, The Bookie's Pencil, is a magnificent collection of the best strips, features, spoof ads and stories from the nation's 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: Who's Who at a Tabloid Newspaper, Believe It or Not about Pianos and What Can You Spot on the Motorway. Exciting Adventures: Roy's Dad of the Rovers, The Receptionist of Dr Van Helsing and The Lapdancing Nit Nurse of Greyturrets School.

About VIZ - Viz is a British adult comic magazine founded in 1979 by Chris Donald. It parodies British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with extensive profanity, toilet humour, black comedy, surreal humour and generally sexual or violent storylines. It also sends up tabloid newspapers, with mockeries of articles and letters pages. It features parody competitions and advertisements for overpriced 'limited edition' tat, as well as obsessions with half-forgotten kitsch celebrities from the 1960s to the 1980s, such as Shakin' Stevens and Rodney Bewes. Occasionally, it satirises current affairs and politicians, but it has no particular political standpoint.

Its success in the early 1990s led to the appearance of numerous rivals copying the format Viz pioneered; none of them managed to attain its popularity. Circulation peaked at 1.2 million in the early 1990s, making it the third-most popular magazine in the UK,[2] but ABC-audited sales have since dropped, to an average of 48,588 per issue in 2018.[3] The 300th issue was published in October 2020.[4]