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Posted on 3 July, 2025

Albert and Babs in Viz

ALBERT and BABS
Continuing my secretly harmonious mini-series on twentieth century icons, how about this comic strip? It’s in Viz (Issue 345, June/Jul 25) so of course it’s not funny, but what a combo – existentialism and smut. Oi Camus, find an excess in moderation or SLING YER ‘OOK.

I wrote similarly on Insta/FB, without the full strip reproduced here and full disclosure that no writer has had more impact on the way I live my life than Camus did. While my fevered teenage passion for Barbara Windsor was briefer and less practical, it was strong at the time and she never subsequently fell from grace.