Black Bag
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"Black Bag - the Fearless Border Collie Bin Liner" is a character in the comic VIZ.
He is a spoof of 1950s comic strips with an irritatingly proper little brat and his "Lassie"-like dog, wandering around the country and generally messing up the lives of the people he meets. Instead of a dog, he's accompanied by a bin liner, blowing in the breeze. Most strips feature the bin liner being callously killed at the end. The strip appears to be a parody of a strip from the Dandy called Black Bob, about a shepherd and his sheepdog.
Black Bag was drawn by Graham Murdoch, under the pen name of Snoddy (his cat). It lasted for a number of years in the late 1980s up to about 1990.
There's little chance of the bin liner blowing again - there were some contractual disagreements between Snoddy and the management of VIZ, but the details are not known.