Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie ('Our Willie') is a long-running comic strip published in the Scottish family newspaper the Sunday Post. It charts the adventures of a small boy in small town Scotland (the fictional town of Auchenshoogle), with his friends Soapy Souter, Fat Boab and Wee Eck. Other characters include the local policeman P.C. Murdoch, and Wullie's would-be girlfriend Primrose Patterson. Members of The Broons occasionally appear as minor characters. Wullie's favourite clothes are his dungarees, worn with tacketty (hobnail) boots, and he is often depicted sitting on an upturned bucket in the yard of his long-suffering parents' house, waiting for his favourite meal of mince and tatties (minced beef and potatoes) or eating a 'jeely piece' (jam sandwich). Much of the dialogue is conducted in Scots, and his expostulations ('Help ma boab!' 'Crivvens!' and 'Jings!' have become indelibly associated with him)

There are many similarities between Wullie and Bart Simpson and it has even been suggested that the creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening, a known fan of British comic books, may have been influenced (knowingly or otherwise) by the work of Wullie's creator Dudley D Watkins.

There was also a series of English books about a schoolboy called William Brown. See Just William Series

External Links

• The Broons and Oor Wullie