UK version of "Hetalia" - from 1992!!

[davemerrill]

Anime fans are gaga over HETALIA, the manga/anime comedy series about personifications of various nations and the way politics, history, and national stereotypes combine to get laffs. But didja know Britian did the same thing with their "Euro School" feature in the humor magazine Viz?



Yes, just as they did in 1914, 1939, and 1966, England leads the way!





Also in this issue of Viz: Millie Tant, Sid The Sexist, Billy The Fish, Tinribs, Student Grant, The Fat Slags, and Roger "Bollocks" Mellie, The Man On Telly, as well as jokes about Inspiral Carpets, Hitler's dirty magazines, 20 Things You Never Knew About The French, and how to save the royal marriage via caravan holiday.

Comments

[mr-sadhead.livejournal.com]

God love 'em. Though that wheeze goes back far. The scenes in the trenches in "Henry V" -- a comedy Irisher, a comedy Welsher, and a comedy Scot.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

The indefinable difference being, Hetalia is generally funny... whereas this... is something entirely else.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Hetalia was like the most boring manga I've ever read. YMMV I guess

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

British comics certainly kick some good Euro ass!

[(Anonymous)]

"Like the Queen Mum, my grandfather visited the East End every night during the war, but no one here ever called him a hero for doing so. Perhaps that is because he flew Heinkel bombers for the Luftwaffe."

--letter to Viz's "Letterbocks"

I've been reading Viz since the early '90s and it's my favorite humor comic, but I think you probably knew that. Ed Hill is a big fan of it, too. Tim Maughan recently expressed concern that Americans fall too easily for films about the British monarchy, such as THE QUEEN and THE KING'S SPEECH. I assured him that Viz inoculated me against excessive royal arse-kissing.

--Carl

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

That Viz letter is the reverse of a joke my uncle told me about an exchange between an airline pilot and ground control at Frankfort airport, the gist of which has the airline pilot explaining his unfamilarity with Frankfort's airspace because the last time he flew there it was 1945 and he wasn't there for very long.