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I can only assume that this is an attempt to pick up more readers in NE England, but a new character has been added to the Sunday Post. Here is the link to Wor Nicky over on the Sunday Post site. Beautifully drawn by Ken H Harrison.

Looks like yet another household name character on the horizon for DCT.

colcool007 wrote:I can only assume that this is an attempt to pick up more readers in NE England, but a new character has been added to the Sunday Post. Here is the link to Wor Nicky over on the Sunday Post site. Beautifully drawn by Ken H Harrison.

Thanks for the heads up. I managed to get a copy from my corner shop and I've given the strip a plug on my blog, - with a nod to you of course for bringing it to our attention.

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... -post.html

Thanks for the credit, but it was pure luck that I saw it. It looks like it could be a winner. I will do a picture of the strip later on, but the humour certainly appears to be aimed at the older audience than the everyman humour of Oor Wullie and The Broons.

Lew Stringer wrote:I've given the strip a plug on my blog

If Wor Nicky goes next door dressed like that, Mr. Todd's blood pressure will be off the scale.

Phoenix wrote:

Lew Stringer wrote:I've given the strip a plug on my blog

If Wor Nicky goes next door dressed like that, Mr. Todd's blood pressure will be off the scale.

Almost bang on for the text used. It was actually

If she goes to see Old Todd with her new frock on his blood pressure will go through the roof

And it was the frame before the one that you saw.

Judging by the information on Lew's blog, Colin, the cartoon strip looks refreshingly original. I haven't bought a Sunday paper for years as I like a day off, and in any case all the news and comment from Saturday and Sunday will be in Monday's issue of The Guardian, but I might just have to buy the Sunday Post now.

Update: I'm reliably informed that Wor Nicky is written by Morris Heggie, not John Anderson as the Post claimed.

Wait, so they deliberately printed a false credit? Is John Anderson well known enough that they can pretend he wrote it similar to the way that all early Disney (i.e. in Mickey Mouse Weekly) art was meant to be drawn by Walt Disney himself, when of course it really wasn't?

Picked it up at Waterloo station on the way to the comic fair. Will have to buy it every week now but I really wish they'd bring back the cut out and fold in half Fun Section. Oor wullie and The Broons on separate pages is just too awkward for collecting purposes.

Digifiend wrote:Wait, so they deliberately printed a false credit? Is John Anderson well known enough that they can pretend he wrote it similar to the way that all early Disney (i.e. in Mickey Mouse Weekly) art was meant to be drawn by Walt Disney himself, when of course it really wasn't?

There was no credit on the strip. It was simply a mistake in the accompanying article by a Post journalist.

I know the Sunday Post has generally older readers but that cartoon just seems so dated. And not in a good way. An open top then talking about blood pressure??? In 2014??

Just read about this so missed last Sunday's Sunday Post. Will keep an eye out next week.

So, 'Wor' as used in 'Wor Nicky': is this the Geordie equivalent of the Scottish term 'OOR', as used in 'oor Wullie'?

Apologies if this aspect has been covered already.

ISPYSHHHGUY wrote:So, 'Wor' as used in 'Wor Nicky': is this the Geordie equivalent of the Scottish term 'OOR', as used in 'oor Wullie'?

Yes. People of my vintage always remember Newcastle United's centre-forward Jackie Milburn's nickname Wor Jackie as easily as his actual name. It is Oor but just pronounced slightly differently.