Kilts in comics

**imbrius** · 24th June 20, 06:57 AM

The topic of kilts came up in a paintball-related comic strip yesterday:

http://the-whiteboard.com/autotwb3097.html

**AFS1970** · 28th June 20, 07:00 AM

I liked that.

Can't say as I have ever come across a kilt comic, but I do know they have made it into paintball. Many years ago my wife and I were the scholarship committee for our local St. Andrew's society, we gave a scholarship to a young piper with a compelling story. A few years later and my playing on a paintball team, I read in a magazine of a paintball battle reenactment with a piper and it was the young man we had given the scholarship to. I never got to meet him, but I did meet his brother who was a drummer and also got a later scholarship from our society. That was by chance at a fundraiser for a band he was playing in.

So sorry for the thread hijacking but kilt's & paintball have been mixing since at least the 1990's.

**Pleater** · 28th June 20, 09:58 AM

I remember a kilted Batman and Robin in an American comic book.
That was decades before paintball.

There were stories of kilted regiments in battles in the comics I used to buy - Hotspur, Victor and Valliant - I used to walk down to the town rather than catching the school bus and buy a comic at the news stand with the money. Lots of tales about pipers winning medals and kilted infantry frightening the Hun.

I blame being put into kilts when very young, myself. Brought on a tendency to climb trees, to run around shouting and to respond to being picked on with both fists.

Anne the Pleater

**Me cousin Jack** · 28th June 20, 11:30 AM

96E2FCE0-B9E6-44C0-857D-421FCB8E1DFF.jpegI always found this kilted beekeeper comical.

**Riverkilt** · 29th June 20, 08:25 PM

I've examples of many kilted characters in comics...just not sure which were actually drawn that way and which have been adapted.

**Piipriker** · 6th July 20, 05:16 AM

I know of twO

Asterix and the Picts
The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island

**Tomo** · 7th July 20, 12:17 AM

**Laird O'the Cowcaddens** · 7th July 20, 10:58 AM

Tomo,
Thanks for the flashback, I haven't seen Our Wullie in over 50 yrs.

**Deirachel** · 7th July 20, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Me cousin Jack

96E2FCE0-B9E6-44C0-857D-421FCB8E1DFF.jpegI always found this kilted beekeeper comical.

Just seems like a beek with nice bees. Italian Hybrids are known for being super gentle, for example.

I've done my weekly maintenance in an Pakastani-made acrylic kilt and a Utilikilt, no shirt, no socks, no veil, no smoke. I've had only one sting, but that was because the bee got caught in my belly flap and I bent over at the same time.