Spit! was the name of a
British
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adult
comic that was published from 1994.
Chris Donald
Chris Donald (born 25 April 1960 in Newcastle, England) is the founder of, and one of the principal contributors to, the British comic magazine '' Viz''.
Biography
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''Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of Viz''- Page 245
2004 - Our lawyer had already told us the charge would never stick. You have to be a counterfeiter rather than a copycat to be guilty of passing off. But Russell Church's legal advice wasn't as good as ours and he pursued Spit all the way to the High Court where the judge ruled that nobody 'with reasonable apprehension and proper eyesight' could confuse Spit with Zit. Church was landed with his opponent's legal bill, estimated at ...
It was one of many such comics similar to ''
Viz'', and was also considerably cruder and of lower production quality than its inspiration, many strips ending with
sexual humour
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. As well as comic strips, it also included photo strips, joke articles,
celebrity
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references, and adverts for phone lines and mail order products. One of its contributing writer/cartoonists was
Allin Kempthorne who has since gone on to become a television and film actor and writer.
Another contributing writer/cartoonist was Gary Bell, who has since gone on to become an addiction treatment activist and blogge
appearing in the 2014 documentary
One Little Pill to talk about his experience of using
The Sinclair Method to recover from a decades long battle with
alcoholism
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.
References
Adult humour titles
Defunct British comics
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