Editing If... (comic) (section)

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''If...'' is a sharp and cynical satirisation of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[politics]] and [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] from a [[left-wing]] perspective, named after the famous [[Rudyard Kipling]] [[If—|poem]].<ref name=Guardian/>  Suiting both Bell's anarchic artistic style and the paper's political stance, it consisted of a short (usually three-panel) daily episode in each Monday to Thursday edition of the paper, with subjects usually covered in these four-day-long segments. ''If...'' occasionally utilises wordplay and coarse humour – Bell is fond of using the [[pejorative]] [[United Kingdom|British]] word "[[wanker]]" and its [[euphemism|euphemistic]] variants, for example. With ''The Guardian''{{'}}s move to new presses, ''If...'' started to appear in full colour in September 2005.
Initially, the title was reflected in the concept, with each week presenting a separate stand-alone story such as "If... Dinosaurs roamed Fleet Street", or "If [[The Bash Street Kids]] ran the country". This shifted into a different approach during the [[Falklands War|1982 Falklands War]], when Bell started to concentrate on two central characters: Royal Navy seaman Kipling and the Penguin he befriends.