The Sunday Post is one of the remaining newspapers to actively promote and, on occasion, enhance its own comic strips, including The Broons. This week sees such a revamp, with a “Braw New Fun Section”, following up on its recent coverage of the world’s first comic, The Glasgow Looking Glass, last Sunday.
The Sunday Post has published newspaper strips since 1936, the year that marked the debut of “The Broons” and “Oor Wullie”, which continue to this day. Unlike other national newspapers, influenced by bean counters and Piers Morgan, publisher DC Thomson has, thankfully, long recognised the value of the paper’s strips to its Unique Selling Point.
Today, Scotland’s favourite newspaper has brought back the fun, literally, with an eight pages new Fun Section, packed with the puzzles, games, brain teasers and comics its readers have grown to love over the years.
There are no new strips, other than the existing four (“The Broon”, “Oor Wullie”, “Wee Harry” and “PC Murdoch”) and the Spot The Difference, “but it feels more like a distinct section now,” Broons artist Mike Donaldson enthuses, “with a more modern and less cramped layout.
The new and improved Fun Section returns “Oor Wullie” and “The Broons” to their rightful place, at the front and centre of the newspaper, just like they were when they were originally drawn by the late, great Dudley D Watkins.
The section also includes children’s puzzles and games, so each edition will feature well-known teasers such as join the dots, a kids’ number cruncher and a big family word search.
The publisher of BEANO and past comic titles such as The Dandy, Mandy and Warlord has, so far, resisted calls to feature comic archive material in The Sunday Post, perhaps as an occasional supplement (which would allow for welcome prefaces and articles offering context to what might be “contentious” material of the past). They still need to be convinced there’s a sizeable market for the reprinting of what Mike describes as “the often bizarre and puzzling, but undoubtedly fantastic, strips that lurk in the DCT archive”… so if you want to see that, perhaps you should add The Sunday Post to your paper order!
• The Sunday Post is available from all good newsagents, including many in Northern England
• The Sunday Post is online at sundaypost.com
• The Sunday Post, 29th June 2025: The Fun Section returns in next weekend’s Sunday Post
• Subscribe to the digital edition of The Sunday Post
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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