The Wizard of Id is a comic strip by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart which began on November 9, 1964. It is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.

The Wizard of Id is set during the Middle Ages. The principal Id characters include the King, Sir Rodney (the knight) and, of course, the Wizard of Id. The Spook is typically in jail and spends his time surreptitiously digging his way to freedom. The King can be imperious or stiff (take your pick) and his sentences to the peasants of his kingdom can be quite dark (as in death; mercy is asked for because it's Valentine's Day, and the king grants that the heart of the peasant be spared death by its forcible removal). The repeated draconian sentences from the king lead to the erstwhile refrain heard over and over in the strip: "The King is a Fink!" (Or as Hart once mangled, "The Fing is a Kink!") How the king hangs onto power in a kingdom of such (privately, away from the king's ears) malcontents results in many plot machinations such as peasant approval polls, speeches by the king to the peasants, etc.

External links

• The Wizard of Id (http://www.creators.com/comics_show.cfm?comicname=wiz)
• Toonopedia (http://www.toonopedia.com/wizid.htm)