www.dcthomson.co.uk
- D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Publisher of The Sunday Post, The Beano, The Dandy,
The Broons and Oor Wullie, among other things.
http://www.davidsonart.com/
Peter Davidson is the current Broons and Oor Wullie artist but that is
not all he does.
His website offers a quick tour of his various works. Very nice works
too and well worth a visit.
Gavin's
Music Files
Well, I have tried to keep this site strictly on the subject of Oor Wullie
and The Broons but here are some of my home recordings (updated March
2008)
www.comicsuk.co.uk
Al Notton's outstanding effort. Shaping up to be
the definitive site for UK comics, annuals, artists etc.
Includes a forum for sharing information and overall the site content
is superb.
Al has a great links page and I will cheekily link to it here.
www.compalcomics.com - Compal Comic Auctions
An auction site operated by Malcolm Philips. This a UK based site
operating auctions four times per year. All comic collectors are catered
for and this is a good place to find the really rare comics, annuals and
pieces of classic original artwork (including artwork by Dudley Watkins).
If you leave your E-mail address with the site, they will send you reminders
when each auction is starting and finishing.
VIZ
COMICS
Suppliers of tat and t-shirts you would be embarrassed to wear.
My all time favourite comic and contrary to popular mythology, continues
to be funnier than it used to be.
www.philsp.com/index.html
- Galactica Central
An incredible piece of work. A site dedicated to comics, magazines, pulp
fiction, detective stories, westerns etc etc. A huge amount of data illustrated
with many classic cover scans. A great browse even if you are not interested
in the subject. Caution - contains some racy covers that may not be suitable
for children.
www.thecomicartwebsite.com
- screenprints and etchings of DC Thomson comic characters
Web site for the excellent print artist John Patrick Reynolds.
John has permission from DC Thomson to use their comic artwork (from drawings
by Davy Law, Leo Baxendale etc) to produce high quality screenprints of
famous comic characters such as Dennis The Menace, Mini The Mix, Billy
Whizz, The Bash Street Kids etc.
www.cartooncentre.com/index.html
- The Cartoon Museum
Just as it says - a cartoon museum. A collection of cartoons through the
ages. Based in London.
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6569/
- INTERCOM
Home of the International Comics Discussion List.
A Great site that has it's own Hall Of Fame were artists are nominated
and inducted (Dudley Watkins was inducted in 1997), biographies of the
artists and other stuff.
http://www.toonhound.com/
A great resource site for british comics, annuals, T.V. cartoons, movie
cartoons and puppets.
Lists web site links for individual cartoon characters etc. with useful
site reviews and comments.
Worth a visit.
http://www.lambiek.net/watkins_dudley.htm
An encyclopedia (Comiclopedia they call it) of comics. This is The Dudley
Watkins page. Some nice artwork scans.
A great personal site from a man obsessed with collecting. Cover scans of hundreds of annuals, books and collectables. His 'My Collection' page is beyond belief.
www.dcthomson.co.uk/bigbairnbooks
- Big Bairn Books and Collectables
A shop and collectors service provided by Douglas and Gail Hill. They
find, buy and sell rare books, annuals and collectables. A few years ago
they appeared on the news after selling a 1939 Broons annual for the outstanding
sum (at the time) of £2,650 (or thereabout).
Ebay
auctions UK search page
Ebay has become one of the main outlets for collectables in the UK.
Broons and Oor Wullie annuals from the mid 1950's to present are regularly
offered for sale along with miscellaneous collectables..
FRANK
QUITELY (AKA Vincent Dieghan)
A mention for Frank Quitely a comic book artist from Glasgow.
A great comic artist who's work has appeared in Electric Soup and Northern
Lightz (both Glasgow comics). These comics are of relevance due to the
appearance of The Greens. The Greens are a 'harder than VIZ' parody of
The Broons. It is adult material - if you are at work/school/church look
it up at your own risk.
Frank has also worked on lots of modern comics such as Batman, Captain
America, New X-Men, The Sandman etc and is the new Superman artist.
http://www.new-year.co.uk/thebroons.html
- New Year with The Broons
A short Hogmany / New year strip story with The Broons.
Nothing at all to do with the rest of this site. I did this site for a friend's turf laying business based in Penicuik, Scotland.
Go on - you can see my cat Jack sitting on the back lawn.
