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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 Scots) whose trademarks are spikey hair, dungarees and sitting on an upturned bucket. Image File history File links Oor_Wullie. ... Image File history File links Oor_Wullie. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... D. C. Thomson & Co. ... The Sunday Post is a Scottish newspaper, published in Dundee by DC Thomson, and characterised by a folksy mix of news, sentimental stories and short features. ... Scots or Lallans (Eng: Lowlands), sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from the Gaelic language of the Highlands, is a West Germanic language used in Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland, and border areas of the Republic of Ireland, where it is known in official circles as Ulster Scots or... An overall is usually used as protective clothing when working, but they have sometimes been items of fashion, especially in the 1990s. ...

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. Dudley D. Watkins was born on February 27, 1907 in Manchester, England. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 (Eng: 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, particularly Granpaw. The Royal Burgh of Dundee (Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001), and one of Scotlands 32 council areas. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Auchenshoogle is a fictional Scottish town, an amalgam of Dundee and Glasgow, used since the late 1990s as the setting (originally unnamed) of the Oor Wullie comic strip in The Sunday Post. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... For the painter see John Constable. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Feral mouse The mouse is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents in the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ (Old World Mice). ... West Highland White Terriers are a breed of dog known for their spirited personality and brilliant white coat; their devotees often call them simply Westies. ... The term girlfriend can have several meanings: The female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship with a male. ... The Broons is a comic strip within The Sunday Post, which is printed by D. C. Thomson & Co. ...

The Oor Wullie strips are presented in a bi-annual with every other year being given over to The Broons.

Related Pages

• List of DC Thomson publications
• The Sunday Post
• The Broons

These comics and magazines are or were published by D. C. Thomson & Co. ... The Sunday Post is a Scottish newspaper, published in Dundee by DC Thomson, and characterised by a folksy mix of news, sentimental stories and short features. ... The Broons is a comic strip within The Sunday Post, which is printed by D. C. Thomson & Co. ...

External links

• The Broons & Oor Wullie
• Great Scots - Our loveable spiky-haired loon - The Scotsman newspaper