worst regular comic strip appearing in Private Eye as of december 2014

happy for people who have one fucking clue about working class people to satirize them

was thinking about Michael Heath, who is obv very much on a sneer at proles tip, his cartoons seem more interesting than 'Yobs' to me, the hyper-detailed attention to minutiae feels more explicitly an outsider/observer looking in, also the disgust and fear is pretty much on the surface rather than lurking behind this veneer of drollery? his cartoons seem to be as much about Heath's psychodrama as their supposed subject, his street scenes remind me a bit of Robert Crumb sometimes

Tony Husband (creator of Yobs):

I got a letter from Ian Hislop asking me if I'd like to do a strip called Yobs. He liked the skinhead gags I did for The Eye. He said he'd give it a short run to see how it went. That was nearly 25 years ago. I love Yobs. It's been great fun getting revenge on some skins who beat me up in the early 70's

was wondering which of these is the longest running? I think Yobs, Celeb and Snipcock & Tweed all started in the late 80s

I'm pretty sure the Young British Artists strip didn't start until like years after YBAs was a vaguely contemporary thing to be making fun of

I'm pretty sure Snipcock and Tweed is the oldest. I can remember Celeb starting - probably around 1990 maybe? But I can never recall a time when Snipcock and Tweed didn't exist.

the new 'Life in a UKIP Britain with THE KIPPERS' strip is objectively terrible, but the letters they've been printing from butthurt UKIP supporters threatening to cancel their subscriptions are the funniest thing in the eye for years, there so seem to be a large number of eye readers who are genuinely shaken and upset by a strip that is directed at them and not someone else

was thinking about Michael Heath, who is obv very much on a sneer at proles tip

More of a sneering at anyone who isn't Michael Heath tip, his work is genuinely repulsive, it is even supposed to be funny, what exactly is it supposed to be? Hogarthian?

http://www.compulink.co.uk/~stevemann/diana/933/bore.htm

there are lots of Heath cartoons on this excellent blog about representations of homosexuality in cartoons since the 1960s, mainly from his defunct eye strip 'The Gays' (which I wouldn't defend, exactly, but is usually not hateful in the same way his cartoons about the great unwashed are)

http://ukjarry.blogspot.co.uk/

the strips are part of the whole publication's curious ongoing experiment in antihumour that could only possibly appeal to the shittest people there are

it's a very difficult thing to see past, so I don't

Heath is a big jazz fan

"Apparently" i often enjoyed but the returns diminished and i'm mildly surprised it's still going

It's a still a sprightly young whippersnapper by the PE standards.

i'd question the validity of the straw-skins that allegedly beat Husband up in the 70's, if true they might have gifted him some perception. His cartoon is so doggedly one dimensional which is death for satire. I hated his ugly ass Oink! vehicle when I was a kid, an insipid kiddy-Viz with shitty 2000ad leftovers.

full archive here, guard yr sides

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/strips/

Would happily subscribe to a Private Eye that was basically the front seven or eight pages without the cover.

there are lots of Heath cartoons on this excellent blog about representations of homosexuality in cartoons since the 1960s, mainly from his defunct eye strip 'The Gays' (which I wouldn't defend, exactly, but is usually not hateful in the same way his cartoons about the great unwashed are)

http://ukjarry.blogspot.co.uk/

― soref, Friday, December 12, 2014 8:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just want to second soref's bigup of this blog, I found it while googling for something (poss that 'Gays' strip actually) and got lost in its rabbithole for hours

Did Goaste.cx do any Private Eye parodies?

not sure they'd work as well. George & Lynne are ripe for their parodies because they're absurd rather than just one-dimensional like the various PE stereotypes

Grim Up North London is too true to life to be a worthy winner. Premiershits or Yobs must win this. I mean...
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/strips/premiershits/1255.jpg
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/strips/yobs/1351.gif

what's that grim recession one? desperate business?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

holy crap those two are terrible, gyac

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sacred anonymity of the poll and all, but really wouldn't mind hearing why someone would pick Scene & Heard as the worst of the lot.

Buzzfeed like it

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/24-times-private-eye-nailed-it-in-2014?bffbuk#.fa63aawKVw

RIP The Adventures of Mr Millibean

feel like an SNP themed strip would have the potential to oust Yobs as the worst

they should really bring back Upfronters though, that was the best thing in the magazine by far