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The BBC invited me to talk on one of its radio shows yesterday, to celebrate Dennis’s 65th birthday and my forthcoming exhibition of DTM screenprints. You can hear me on Jo Good in the afternoon – an early afternoon show on BBC Radio London – on its website and the show, from 23 March 2016 […]

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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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The nation’s favourite wildchild, Dennis the Menace, turns 65 this month and an exhibition of screenprints featuring him is being held to celebrate. The iconic character from The Beano comic made his appearance in the edition dated March 17, 1951. Sixty-five years later he’s still going strong – and has become the star of TV, […]

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The Americans seem to have woken up to the fact that there is a British comic character called Dennis the Menace, just in time to celebrate the two creations’ 65th birthdays. An article just appeared on the American website The Smithsonian. This is how it starts: “They were born simultaneously, in March 1951, two entirely […]

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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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