"Tha's braw!"
 

     Crivvens! - The Broons are Scotland's First Family, a bawdy bunch who have
     inhabited No. 10 Glebe Street since 1936. The extended family includes
     Maw and Paw Broon, Granpaw Broon, big Daphne Broon, bookish Horace,
     hunky Joe Broon, glamorous Maggie, lanky Hen Broon, the Broon twins and
     'the wee bairn'. They're quintessential working class clansfolk, regularly hard-up
     but always rich with love and laughter and language - indeed, their broad
     dialect can  be almost impenetrable to us southern fearties.

          

     The gang first appeared in the pages of Scotland's Sunday Post newspaper,
     where they still feature each week, almost eighty years on,  but they're also
     just as well known for their annual appearances. DC Thomson have published
     Broons Annuals since 1939, alternating them each year with that young Scots
     loon Oor Wullie (although they paused during WWII owing to a paper shortage).

     The strips were intially drawn by the late great comics genius that was Dudley
     Watkins. After his death in 1969 the publishers made do with reprinted strips
     until 1979 when other artists were drafted in, principally Ken H Harrison -
     another comics genius. Broons strips are always handsomely staged and
     detailed, in the classic comics tradition with full-bodied figures. The times may
     have changed but the Broons remain irrascibly old-fashioned, even though
     newer strips have embraced the likes of Nintendoes, nightclubs and karaokes.
     For many northern folks the Broons are as Scottish as Irn Bru, stovvies, and
     Hogmanay, and you know, that's nae bad thing, hen...