Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie is a comic strip, set in Scotland, in the D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a boy named William ('Wullie' - Oor Wullie is Our Willie in a Scots accent) whose trademarks are spikey hair, dungarees and sitting on an upturned bucket.

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Comic strip - Scotland - D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd - The Sunday Post - Scots accent - Dungarees

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Created by cartoonist Dudley D. Watkins (1907-1969), the strip first appeared in the issue dated 8 March 1936. Watkins continued to draw it until his death, after which the Sunday Post recycled his work into the 1970s, when he was succeeded by Ken H. Harrison, followed in 1995 by the current artist Peter Davidson.

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Dudley D. Watkins - 1907 - 1969 - 8 March - 1936 - 1970s - Ken H. Harrison - 1995 - Peter Davidson

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Wullie's home town is an amalgam of Dundee and Glasgow, unnamed in the Watkins strips, but called Auchenshoogle since the late 1990s. His adventures consist mostly of get-rich-quick schemes and getting up to mischief, to the despair of his parents Ma and Pa, and the local policeman, P.C. Murdoch. His friends are Fat Bob, Wee Eck (i.e. Little Alec) and Soapy Soutar, and he is the leader of their gang, a position which is frequently disputed by the others. He owns a pet mouse named Jeemy, and in later years has gained a Highland Terrier named Harry, and a "sometime-girlfriend", Primrose Patterson. Characters from The Broons occasionally feature.

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Dundee - Glasgow - 1990s - P.C. - Mouse - Highland Terrier - Girlfriend - The Broons

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