happy for people who have one fucking clue about working class people to satirize them
― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 December 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.tonyhusband.co.uk/images/yobs/Yob-strips-16.jpg
^^^satirising yob culture
― Eine Feine (soref), Friday, 12 December 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
pray cease, i fear my sides shall split
― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 December 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Would love to know the Yobs creator's deal. Where does this unvarnished loathing of poor people come from? Did he have some traumatic experience in a pub after a football match and this is his extended therapy?
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
If a one-off cartoon like Yobs appeared in the Mail there would be a twitterstorm but in Private Eye it just trundles on year after year.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― Eine Feine (soref), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― everything, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
was wondering which of these is the longest running? I think Yobs, Celeb and Snipcock & Tweed all started in the late 80s
― Eine Feine (soref), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― Eine Feine (soref), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
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.
― everything, Friday, 12 December 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
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
― Eine Feine (soref), Friday, 12 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~stevemann/diana/933/bore.htm
― soref, Friday, 12 December 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
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, 12 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
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
― tweet deems ur mad f this (wins), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
it's a very difficult thing to see past, so I don't
― tweet deems ur mad f this (wins), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
Heath is a big jazz fan
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
"Apparently" i often enjoyed but the returns diminished and i'm mildly surprised it's still going
― A cat having an apron (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 December 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
It's a still a sprightly young whippersnapper by the PE standards.
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Friday, 12 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Saturday, 13 December 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
full archive here, guard yr sides
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/strips/
― xelab, Saturday, 13 December 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Would happily subscribe to a Private Eye that was basically the front seven or eight pages without the cover.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 December 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Did Goaste.cx do any Private Eye parodies?
― imago, Saturday, 13 December 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― cornelius pardew (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
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.jpghttp://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/strips/yobs/1351.gif
what's that grim recession one? desperate business?
― gyac, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
holy crap those two are terrible, gyac
― Gland Of Horses (sic), Thursday, 18 December 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 December 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
Buzzfeed like it
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/24-times-private-eye-nailed-it-in-2014?bffbuk#.fa63aawKVw
― cardamon, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
RIP The Adventures of Mr Millibean
feel like an SNP themed strip would have the potential to oust Yobs as the worst
― soref, Sunday, 10 May 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
they should really bring back Upfronters though, that was the best thing in the magazine by far
― soref, Sunday, 10 May 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link