Oor Wullie under the hammer
Rob Murray writes: An oil painting of iconic Scottish cartoon-strip character Oor Wullie is due to be auctioned in Glasgow on Thursday night, and has been valued at between £2,500 and £3,500. © STV – Scottish Television – Image by artist Graham McKean The painting, by Irvine-based artist Graham McKean, shows D.C. Thomson‘s Wullie – […]
Grandma returns and Oor Wullie goes
Grandma has returned to Ipswich. The statue of the legendary Giles character was removed earlier this year to make way for a redevelopment of the area, but is now positioned looking up at the window where cartoonist Carl Giles worked as the centrepiece of the newly renamed Giles Circus (as previously reported in Bloghorn). Meanwhile, north […]
Jings! Gordon joins the Broons
The Broons is copyright DC Thomson You will no doubt have already seen Gordon Brown teamed with Scotland’s first family of comic strips, the Broons, in the Private Eye parody The Broon-ites. But at the weekend (January 25) the Prime Minister appeared in the genuine article: an episode of The Broons in The Sunday Post. […]