scotland yardie Archives

I can't wait to see where Bobby will take it next!" Bobby Joseph's early comics work includes the creation of Skank magazine, where his best-known strip, "Scotland Yardie", first featured, and was later published as a graphic novel by Knockabout Press Bobby has written for The Guardian newspaper, Dazed and Confused and Vice.com His comic work[...]

Scotland Yardie was a cartoon by Bobby Joseph, parodying both police dramas and Jamaican-infused Black British culture that ran in the Black rip-off version of Viz Comic, Skank, published in the early nineties It originally looked like this. A satirical look at the British police from a twentieth-century perspective of racial violence, it imagines a Jamaican[...]

Bobby Joseph is one of the main players in British independent comic books, and featured heavily in last year's exhibition at the British Library. Scotland Yardie Returns As Original Knockabout Comics Graphic Novel He used to publish a British satirical comic book called Skank, which ran from 1993 to 1997 Billing itself as a black Viz, which[...]