Oor Wullie

[remember]

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 spiky hair, dungarees and sitting on an upturned bucket - indeed, the strip has started and ended with a single frame featuring Wullie on his bucket since early 1937. The earliest strips always ended with Wullie complaining 'I nivver get ony fun roond here!' and featured very little dialogue, with the artistic style settling down by 1940 and changing little since. A frequent tag-line reads "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!". I personally still get the annual every year for Christmas (either Broons or Oor Wullie) and still love every page!I also get the Oor Wullie annual every year, even when I lived in Australia for 15 years and New zealand for 8 years. My mum would post them to me no matter where I was living.

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[KOK]

Hi All,

here is a link to a wee song I wrote a number of years ago for Oor Wullie. Its called 'Scotland's Oldest Wee Boy'...

Hope you get a smile!

KOK

YouTube - Oor Wullie - "Scotland's Oldest Wee Boy"

[Flash Gordon]

My familly is from Scotland originally so we would holiday up there and my relatives gave me Oor Willie and Broons anuals and my gran would cut out the strips from the papers and send them to me, so I remember them fondly. I think I've got an aniversary collection somewhere

[scotchmist]

Being a Glasweigan (in exile in London) I grew up with Oor Wullie and The Broons!! I still have a pile of the annuals back at my Mum's place in Glasgow. I used to love the wee rhyme at the top of each strip which summarised the cartoon's theme. Some of the strips would actually get me laughing out loud, but it was the broad Scots dialect (some of it fictitious) which really tickled my funny bone, help ma boab !

[Richard1978]

I remember The Beano used to have ads for the Oor Wullie & The Broons annuals, & not really knowing what they were. Being well away from the circulation of The Sunday Post the only other place I spotted them was the annuals section of WH Smiths.

It was almost same situation with the Comic Library books, which sometimes were about characters who stopped being in The Beano & Dandy years before.

The 50th Anniversary books helped fill in the gaps.

[ArchStantonsGhost]

Oor Wullie is a great wee character from a wonderful city and looks fantastically fit for someone aged 73 !

( his first strip started in 1936 would you believe )


As you can see from the picture of him I've posted the wee fella enjoys a good bucket .... just like most of his fellow countrymen.

[Flash Gordon]

Jings!
Crivvins!
Help m'boab!

[Raymond Luxury-Yacht]

Anyone remember when "Naked Video" did a send-up of The Broons? Even though we have no connection with Scotland we used to have a long-standing special order at the newsagents for The Sunday Post; lovely old-fashioned paper and a real part of our Sundays, along with roast dinners, afternoon films, Sunday night at the London Palladium and depression at the thought of school next morning. But then they ruined it by becoming almost a parody of themselves, with silly stuff like "Nae Sassenachs in oor braw competition, noo!" Oh yes, and those blatant plugs for certain businesses, when someone would supposedly write to the "Queries Man" asking if there were any chip shops in Lanark or something.

[tulip]

I preferred the Broons myself.Both are still going strong.Worth pointing out,if you go back through the books you find storylines rehashed lol.Ma Broon also has a cookbook out.



tulip

[Flash Gordon]

I remember the Naked Video sketch of the Broons - been trying to remember who played who since you mentioned it!. A good show. Remember the guy trying to look cool after he's just missed the bus?

But I've got to ask since I've always wondered, what on earth does "help ma boab" mean??

Does anyone know?