News — The Broons & Oor Wullie
How-to-make-a-screenprint poster
Posted by John Patrick Reynolds on
Here’s a print-off-and-hang poster about how to make a screenprint. It shows all the various stages of the process, from the original image to the finished handmade screenprint. 1 Pick your image,in this case the P from Little Plum, The Beano Summer Special 1971. I have a licence from DC Thomson to use such images, […]
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Last chance to buy Oor Wullie ‘sair fecht’
Posted by John jpr@thecomicartwebsite.com on
It’s not a cheerful comment, but when Oor Wullie says: “It’s a sair fecht,” it seems to strike a chord. Literally, “sair fecht” means sore fight in the Scots language but translates idiomatically as: “It’s a hard life.” Anyway, the standard size edition is nearly exhausted – there are about ten left of the edition […]
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Comic Art screenprints at Grand Designs
Posted by John Patrick Reynolds on
Comic Art will be at Grand Designs, the UK’s top contemporary home show in London’s ExCeL exhibition hall, for the next nine days. We wlll be at Stand E89 in the central Design Arcade showing all my latest screenprints and old favourites. Screenprints are priced from £280 for my largest to just £40 for my […]
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Press for Oor Wullie exhibition
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Crivvens – iconic prints of comic heroes to feature in exhibition By GRAEME STRACHAN, 29 February 2016 3.07pm. Dundee Evening Telegraph An exhibition is being staged in Tayside to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Oor Wullie and the Broons. The event will attract huge interest from throughout Scotland and particularly in […]
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New Oor Wullie screenprints
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I’ve produced 10 new screenprints of Oor Wullie to celebrate his 80th birthday. One of them is a medium-sized one (48cms x 38cms) of the very first strip, printed on March 8, 1936. I’ve added a bit of red in the title, but apart from that it’s exactly as it was printed in The Sunday […]
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