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.
The City (Transmetropolitan) references to real-world cities make it impossible to reasonably conclude anything except that The City isn't "based" on any city in particular, and is instead an amalgamation of major US cities with an indefinite geographic location. References are not limited to US landmarks: the Autumn Rainfall Nanohuman Community building is drawn as a replica of the BBC's Broadcasting House which is located in London. The City (Transmetropolitan) The City is a fictional megacity which forms the main setting for the Vertigo comic "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis. Located somewhere in the United States, the City is the largest metropolitan area in