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.
Astro Boy (character) all time. Astro Boy (character) On 7 April 2003, the City of Niiza registered the character as an actual resident. He was also inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2004. Atom (known as Astro Boy or just Astro in English) originally appeared as a supporting character in the comic "Atom Taishi" ("Ambassador Atom", sometimes referred to as "Captain Atom"), which appeared in "Shonen", a monthly magazine for boys, in April 1951. Tezuka then created a comic series in which Astro was the main character. Osamu Tezuka created Astro to be, in the words of Frederik L. Schodt (creator