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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | The modern Hogarths |
 | | It is a remarkable achievement: that a magazine containing not much apart from crude, and crudely drawn, cartoons, first sold in a Newcastle pub for 20p (30p to students), could be selling, within a few years and with the same editorial team, more than a million copies an issue. |
 | | We may also remark on the low profile assumed by Chris Donald despite the fact that he is responsible for one of the larger features in the contemporary cultural landscape. |
 | | Donald was approached by his publisher, John Brown, to write his story at the height of Viz's success; but, says Donald, "I don't believe in the opportunist, cash-in autobiography... |
| books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1375232,00.html (971 words) |
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