Viz (comics) and Christina Martin. Many "Viz" characters have featured in long-running strips, becoming well-known in their own right, including spin-off cartoons. Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly; Nobby's Piles; Johnny Fartpants; Buster Gonad; Sid the Sexist; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres. Others are based on stereotypes of British culture, mostly via working class characters, such as Biffa Bacon, Cockney Wanker and The Fat Slags. In addition to this, the comic also contains plenty of 'in jokes' referring to people and places in and around Newcastle upon Tyne.
Heart of the City (comic strip) Heart of the City (comic strip) Heart of the City is a comic strip by Mark Tatulli. It began syndication by Universal Press Syndicate on November 23, 1998, and is still running. It is currently syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication, parent company of Universal Press Syndicate). It centers on a young girl, named Heart, who lives somewhere in Philadelphia. (One 2004 strip shows her home address as 1512 Spruce Street) In typical comic strip format, characters do not age but the world around them is shown to change. For example, Dean was seen