Viz

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Viz, the scatological UK comic that rose from hand-stapled obscurity to become a titan of juvenilia in the '80s and '90s. Plus, we reveal our ill-conceived conspiracy theories about the Bowie list or lack therof.

25 Years of Viz book

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Stuff we Mentioned

• The Beano

• The Topper

• The Dandy

• The Young Ones

• The Geordie Dialect

• Mad Magazine

• Mad's Update of the Gashlycrumb Tinies

• Maria Bamford

• Atomic Books in Baltimore

• Short Run Festival in Seattle

• Lucy Bellwood

• Farel Dalyrmple and Pop Gun War

• Fantagraphics Books

• Emil Farris and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

• Cafe Racer in Seattle

• David Lasky and the Dune comics anthology

• Riff Raff Books in Providence

• McNally Jackson

• Boulder Bookstore in, ahem, Boulder

• The Laughing Gnome in World of Warcraft

• Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly! - well, YouTube, really.

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