Black Bag

Black Bag

"Black Bag - The Faithful Border Bin Liner" is an occasional character in the adult comic Viz.

The original strip was a spoof of 1950s comic strips with an upper class boy and his "Lassie"-like dog, wandering around the country and generally messing up the lives of the people he meets. Instead of a dog, he was accompanied by a bin liner, blowing in the breeze. Most strips featured the bin liner being callously killed at the end. The strip was a parody of a strip from The Dandy called Black Bob, about a shepherd and his sheepdog.

Black Bag was drawn by Graham Murdoch, under the pen name of Snoddy (his cat). It lasted for a number of years in the late 1980s up to about 1990.

Black Bag was affectionately known as "B Bag", or "Baggy", by his devout readers. His friends, R Bag, G Bag and Wee Raab featured in later episodes of the strip and helped Baggy to solve many a crime.

The strip returned to Viz in 2007, with Black Bag rescuing Brotherhood of Man from a well.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • black-bag — [blak′bag′] adj. [in allusion to a burglar s bag of tools] Slang designating or of a secret illegal break in made by a government agency in pursuit of suspected criminals, enemy agents, etc …   English World dictionary

  • black bag — A reusable overnight pouch for transmitting postal documents, reports, and workpapers …   Glossary of postal terms

  • black-bag — /blak bag /, adj. Informal. of, pertaining to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget: Black bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military. * * * …   Universalium

  • black-bag — /blak bag /, adj. Informal. of, pertaining to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget: Black bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military …   Useful english dictionary

  • black-bag — adjective Involving sophisticated clandestine methods for gaining unauthorized entry and obtaining information. Watergate turned out to be a black bag operation by former CIA employees …   Wiktionary

  • black bag —    (associated with) an illicit enquiry    Usually relating to telephone tapping or the robbery of documents, from the holdall in which tools are carried:     I d like you to authorize a black bag job on Rathbone s town house. (Sanders, 1990) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • Black bag operation — Black bag operations (or black bag jobs ) are covert or clandestine surreptitious entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations. This usually entails breaking and entering into denied areas. Some of the tactics,… …   Wikipedia

  • Black-bag cryptanalysis — In cryptography, black bag cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the acquisition of cryptographic secrets via burglary, or the covert installation of keystroke logging or trojan horse software/hardware on target computers or ancillary devices. Such… …   Wikipedia

  • black-bag job — Informal. surreptitious or illegal entry or activity by government agents seeking incriminating evidence. [1970 75, Amer.] * * * black bag job «BLAK BAG», U.S. Informal. a burglary by a law enforcement agent to obtain information …   Useful english dictionary

  • black bag — noun a) A black plastic sack produced for the disposal of household waste. The road was full of blackbags awaiting the arrival of the dustbin men. b) The pouch or case …   Wiktionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”