Spit! (comic)

Spit! was the name of a British adult comic that was published during the 1990s.

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. As well as comic strips, it also included photo strips, joke articles, celebrity references, and adverts for phone lines and mail order products. Edited in its first years by Graham Hey. Regular contributors included Nigel Maughan, Chris Whitehead, Paul Palmer and Paul Kelly. The comic was published for several years after being launched by Graham Hey, who later wrote and drew the strip: Teenage Mum in The Daily Star national newspaper. As of 2006, Graham Hey performs a comedy mindreading act in the comedy clubs, Paul Kelly has performed as a stage hypnotist, and Chris Whitehead has also performed stand-up comedy. He currently works as a senior theatre technician in a Derby hospital. Paul Palmer currently draws for The Beano, amongst other titles.

"Spit" comic initially had respectable sales of over 30,000 per month.

Strips included:

*Bellamy Logusi - Gothic botanist based on David Bellamy.
*Billy Holiday - a mentally ill man who believes he is on holiday in Spain. Lampooning the stereotype of Club 18-30 holidays, he would dress in shorts an t-shirts, sexually molest women, insult bartenders and sunbathe on piles of workmen's sand
*Dad and Son - about a helpful but inept father, who would offer to help his son in disturbing ways (e.g. have sex with him to relieve his sexual frustration)
*D.I.Y. Desmond - a handyman who keeps being offered sex by female clients despite having impotence
*Jim Nasium - a sociopathic, egotistical, paedophile gym teacher
*Miserable Fucking Caretaker
*Reggie Carlton - who has a 'Bobby Charlton', rhyming slang for a combover to disguise baldness
*Roy of the Red Lion lampooning Roy of the Rovers, portraying footballers as obese alcoholics
*Tall Paul and his offensive parrot - a man who carries a swearing parrot with him at all times
*Teenage Mum - coinciding with the moral panic on the same issue, portraying a single mother as a whore, living on a council estate via state benefits, trying to dispose of her perpetually-screaming baby in order to have sex with random men
*T-Bone Trevor - about a butcher
*Timothy Stead - and his Nuclear Warhead. Drawn by Lew Stringer, about a teenage boy with portable nuclear missiles. In one strip, he sells them as one-use vibrators
*The Twats Next Door - who were extremely antisocial
*Ugly Dudley - a thug
*Young Brad - The Vicar's Lad