Oh yes! I can also remember a drawing in the regular Jack Black and his dog, Silver strip, with a caption that went something like "...and in a scene remarkably similar to the cover of The Black Island by Hergé, Jack set out..."
They're nicely observed - and rather savage spoofs - in a very British Enid Blyton / Beano & Dandy 1950s picture story vein, where all gypsies, working class people and foreigners are "evil", and usually punished by being executed by a friendly policeman!
I particularly liked the one where Jack was suspicious of a new arrival in the village, simply because he read The Guardian newspaper instead of The Daily Mail, and hounded him out as a result. Very non-PC!
Nice to know that there seems to be a Tintin fan on the Viz staff, at any rate. |