The Really Heavy Greatcoat is a British cartoon strip by John Freeman and Nick Miller, later published as a webcomic.
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,[3] and has spawned several spin-offs, including The Underversity drawn by Paul J. Palmer.
In 2014, John Freeman began to publish an archive of the strip on the web comic platform Tapastic.
In 2015, Nick Miller began the weekly The RHG on the same service, a satirical strip which occasionally features the Greatcoat and its modern-day owner, layabout Kevin.