Oor Wullie declares: The Very Dab (large size, on handmade paper) Minnie the Minx The Bash Street Kids and

The Bash Street Kids and Roger The Dodger

a brief bit of research revealed to me that Valentine's Day has been associated with lovers for longer than I’d thought: apparently the first surviving romantic reference to St Valentine's Day was made by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century

Dogmatix and Getafix are a band of Gauls holding out against the Roman invasion

but transferred to the picture-strip Victor when it launched

Oor Wullie declares: The Very Dab (large size, on handmade paper) Minnie the Minx The Bash Street Kids andHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed, numbered and dated in pencil by me, the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Large size: 76cm x 56cm DC Thomson & Co Ltd