"Black Bag - The Faithful Border Bin Liner" is an occasional character in the adult comic Viz.
It is a spoof of the comic strip Black Bob the Border Collie, which appeared in The Dandy from 1944 to 1965. In the original, Black Bob helps his owner, a shepherd, solves crimes, apprehends villains and generally does good.
In the spoof, an upper-class boy is accompanied by a bin liner, blowing in the breeze. He wanders around the country generally messing up the lives of the people he meets. Most strips featured the bin liner being callously killed at the end.
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.
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or bag:
“When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy,
I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our father’s knee;
And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him, and he will then love me.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)