The Really Heavy Greatcoat

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The Really Heavy Greatcoat
Kevin, the current wearer of the anarchic greatcoat
Creator(s)	John Freeman and Nick Miller
Website(s)	http://www.reallyheavygreatcoat.com
Update Schedule	Ongoing as web and mobile comic
Launch Date	February 1987
End date	N/A
Genre	Humor
Format	Comic strips, Serial
Publisher	Self Published
Price	Mobile cost varies per territory (see www.rokcomics.com)

"Worn by a hippy for many years, long-term exposure to weird substances gave the Greatcoat a mind of its own..."

[edit] History

The Really Heavy Greatcoat debuted in the Lancaster, Lancashire listings magazine On the Beat in February 1987, and its successor, Off the Beat.

It is now published primarily online as a comic for mobile on ROK Comics and also as a web comic on downthetubes, a frequently visited site by many in British comics.

Comics-inspired versions of the strip are also published in the international comics magazine Comics International. The RHG has appeared in Comics International since #197, published in 2006, one of the most respected journals in the comics industry, and has been selected for publication in various titles, including The Norm published by syndicated US cartoonist Michael Jantze (in The Norm Magazine, No. 8, Pg. 41) and Paper Tiger, an independent UK comics anthology.

The cartoon is written by ROK Comics Managing Editor John Freeman and drawn by Nick Miller, a cartoonist whose work has appeared in various UK and US magazines for many years including US publisher Eureka Productions. The strip, often poking fun at newsworthy events as well as satirising comics counterculture, centres on a greatcoat brought to life sometime in the 1960s after being exposed to mind-enhancing drugs stuffed in its pockets.

The strip has a dedicated following in Lancaster and on the internet, with a detailed listing on The Comics Database, and has spawned several spin-offs, including The Underversity drawn by Paul J. Palmer.