Oor Wullie declares: The Very Dab (large size, on handmade paper) Minnie the Minx © DC Thomson & Co

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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

Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by me

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

it was always a better comic if it was an Alf week

Oor Wullie declares: The Very Dab (large size, on handmade paper) Minnie the Minx © DC Thomson & CoHandmade 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