Comic character

You all know Viz, the Geordie comic that stunned the media with it's massive sales and genius break with convention, laying the foundation for all the 'attitude glossies' of today. It's founder, Chris Donald was an each night regular in the Trent, during the period when Viz went from a 'bedroom & staples' enterprise to a 'boardroom & famous' thing. We gained great notoriety from the fact that Chris hand drew all our publicity & posters for events we staged. He also allowed us discounted, near-knuckle advertising, meaning that we travelled to a large extent, in the wake of his success. Many was the Sunday morning when the call would come for us to find photo love characters for the comic, which we'd recruit from staff & any people kicking around the bar.
Perhaps this is why the Trent is often mistakenly complimented as being the first bar to ever sell Viz comic, when the first bar was in fact the old Strawberry (pre re-fit). A few years ago, in a national tourist guide there was a 'celebrity 10 favourite things' page, chosen by Chris. In it he bigged up the Trent & we thank him for that. Old skool flavour.