Buy this book on-line DONALD, CHRIS: : RUDE KIDS: The Unfeasible Story of VIZLONDON.HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS,2004. ISBN 0007190964.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj - as new.Bright, crisp,clean,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy. Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original,plain red cloth bOrds with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-378pp [paginated] includes an introduction,25 chapters,12pp contemporary, biographical,b/w+colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp122/3 and pp250/1 respectively,b/w line illus throughout the text and the book,appendix of VIZ cartoons; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and a dedication.
This is the fascinating rag-mag-to-riches
story of VIZ,as told by its creator Chris
Donald,who started the magazine in 1979 and remained its editor for 20 years.
Chris tells how the tatty magazine he threw together in his Newcastle bedroom became one of the UK's best-selling magazines.He explains the origins of comic characters like Roger Mellie, Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags.As VIZ flourished and those characters became household names, Chris's life changed dramatically.He was invited to St James's Palace for dinner by Prince Charles,and to New Scotland Yard for questioning by the Anti-Terrorist Branch.He wined and dined the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones,played celebrity football with,erm. . . . Eddie 'The Eagle'
Edwards and caught his wife up to no good with Keith Richards in Peter Cook's attic.
But it's not all celebrities,sex and drugs.Chris also gives a unique insight into how VIZ affected himself,his family and friends,and tells of the fall-outs and controversy that came with the magazine's phenomenal success.
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