One publication of that period did find an audience. "Viz" began life in 1979 as a fanzine style publication, before, in 1989, becoming the biggest selling comic in the country. Based upon bad taste, crude language, crude sexual innuendo, and the parodying of strips from "The Dandy" (among them "Black Bag – the Faithful Border Bin Liner", a parody of "The Dandy's" "Black Bob" series about a Border Collie), the popularity of "Viz" depended entirely upon a variant of Sixties counter-culture; and it promptly inspired similarly themed titles, including "Smut", "Spit!", "Talking Turkey", "Elephant Parts", "Gas", "Brain Damage", "Poot!", "UT" and "Zit", all of which failed to achieve "Viz'"s longevity and folded, while "Viz" remained one of the United Kingdom's top-selling magazines.