Mickey's Miniature Grandpa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mickey's Miniature Grandpa is a strip in the British Viz comic.

It is a parody of the large number of "small people" in British children's comics, and specifically of Peter's Pocket Grandpa, a strip which once appeared in The Dandy. The difference being that Mickey Marston's grandfather is merely convinced that he's four inches tall - in reality he is a completely normal-sized person. He never realises this however, and constantly acts as if he's really this size, to the detriment of Mickey - on several occasions he has tried to climb onto Mickey (nearly crushing him). Worsening the fact is that Mickey's mother continually refuses to acknowledge that her father has a mental problem (which may be a satire on people's attitudes when their loved ones become mentally ill).