My Comic Journey – Part 1: The Sunday Post.

I don’t remember what age I was when I started reading comics, but I was very young probably about 5 or 6. Like most kids in Scotland in the early eighties my first real appreciation for comics came every Sunday when I would get a hold of the Sunday Post and get to see what Oor Wullie and the Broons and been up to.

On a Sunday morning I would get up and go downstairs always drawn by the smell of breakfast and coffee. My Dad would have been to the paper shop to get the Sunday Papers and rolls for breakfast. I remember the Sunday Post being a huge Broadsheet paper that made me stretch every time I wanted to turn a page. I would eagerly turn to the cartoons page where you had to then turn the paper on its side and would read the Broons’ then flip over and read Oor Wullie.

The Broons were a Scottish family consisting of the Mum, the Dad, 5 sons and 3 daughters or for those of you who care; Paw, Maw, Joe, Hen, Daphne, Maggie, Horace, The Twins and the Bairn. Oh and don’t forget Grandpaw. The family all lived together, I always presumed, in a flat and got up to lots of various capers. I enjoyed the Broons but to me it was the set up to getting to my favourite “Oor Wullie”
Wullie or William was a little boy who I always thought was around the same age as me, I had no idea at the time I was 5 or 6 that Wullie had been that age for about 40 years. The thing I remember most about Wullie was that he loved 3 things; His bucket, Fighting and fish and chips.

I think that this must be where my love of black and white artwork comes from.

More information about The Broons and Oor Wullie can be found here, here and here.
The Sunday Post is a Scottish Sunday Newspaper Published by DC Thomson.

Now this wont be all that popular of an opinion but the reason I'm not a huge fan of Frank Quitely's art is that it reminds me of the Broons and Oor Wullie. I think the style worked on those comical characters but I don't think it works to well on Batman or Superman. just me ranting a bit I did dig his Authority stuff though . .