Brown bags Viz

1pm update: James Brown says he has fulfilled a lifetime's ambition by taking control of the cult comic Viz, reports Dan Milmo.

Brown bids for Viz

10.30am: Loaded founder James Brown has launched a surprise £6.4m bid for the publishers of the cult magazine Viz. By Jessica Hodgson.

Viz achieves respectability

11am: Viz, the magazine that brought us the Fat Slags, is to be moved off the top shelf, reports Jessica Hodgson.

Strip teasers

Roger Sabin looks at the graphic novel, the publishing world's strangest hybrid, and finds it alive and kicking

John Brown mulls launch of new lads’ mag

11am: John Brown Publishing, which publishes Viz and Bizarre, is considering launching a new lads' magazine. Jessica Hodgson reports.

Strip teaser

The book of the film: Ghost World.

He does it with magic

Hollywood is filming Jack the Ripper - again. But this time the script comes from a comic. Writer Alan Moore tells Nick Hasted about his latest coup

From the bottom up

James Brown always felt an affinity for Viz, the adult comic for boys who never grew up. He celebrates its 20th anniversary