Sunday Post Cartoon Character famous for sitting on his bucket. Information about Oor Wullie and his cartoon adventures:

Oor Wullie is a cheeky wee lad whose antics appear in the Sunday Post newspaper each week. He had fans, young and old, throughout Scotland and the world.

Oor Wullie Annual 2009

The Oor Wullie Annual 2009 went on sale in autumn 2008 in time for Christmas. The picture on the Oor Wullie annual 2009 shows our favourite loon sitting on a bucket in the snow wearing his hat, scarf and gloves and his tackety boots. Buy Now At A Discounted Price
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Oor Wullie Annual

In Christmas 2007 there was no new Oor Wullie annual for 2008 but there was still a Christmas treat for fans of Oor Wullie. The Sunday Post publishers reprint the Oor Wullie number one annual and called this reproduction the Oor Wullie Annual No.1. Buy Now!

The very fist Oor Wullie annual usually sells for thousands of pounds between collectors of Oor Wullie annuals and this is a rare treat to have a reproduced copy of a bit of Oor Wullie history and to see how these early Oor Wullie comic strips looked.
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About Aberdeen recommend buying a copy of the Oor Wullie Annual No 1 as early as possible because only a limited number of these annuals, which is a slip case facsimile of the first OOr Wullie annual that was published in 1940, have been reprinted and predict that they will soon become collector's editions. Oor Wullie annual No 1 will be of great interest to modern reader's of Oor Wullie in the Sunday Post where they will see that he originally had a younger brother and there are long lost members of the oor Wullie gang such as a boy called Ezzy. Readers can see the early work of Oor Wullie cartoonist Dudley D Watkins. The ISBN of the Oor Wullie Annual No 1 the reprint of the very first Oor Wullie annual is ISBN 978-1-84513-215-6 and is published by Aurum and D.C. Thomson publishers.

Auchtershoogle

Oor Wullie lives in the fictional Scottish village of Auchtershoogle with his Ma, Dad, Harry the West Highland Terrier and Jeemy his mouse.

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Each week in The Sunday Post, you can read about the mischief he creates with his friends Fat Bob (sometimes called Fat Boab), Soapy Souter and Wee Eck. PC Murdoch the village bobby keeps a close eye on them! Oor Wullie reluctantly tolerates Primrose as his girlfriend.

OorWullie and his pals love to go fishing in the nearby burn or racing cairties down Stoorie Brae.

His favourite meal is mince and tatties. He loves to wear dungarees and his favourite seat is his bucket. His favourite catchphrases include Jings, Crivvens and Help Ma Boab.

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The first Oor Wullie Cartoon Strip

The first Oor Wullie cartoon strip appeared in The Sunday Post Fun Section on the 8th March 1936. The first Oor Wullie annual was printed in 1940. The first Broons annual was published in 1939 and each is now published in alternate years, the only exception being between 1943 and 1946 due to the paper shortages caused by World War 2.

Dudley D. Watkins

Oor Wullie and The Broons were created by Dudley D. Watkins (he also created Desperate Dan) and are published by D.C Thomson, Dundee.

Happy Birthday Oor Wullie TV Documentary

To celebrate the 70th birthday of Oor Wullie BBC Scotland will broadcast a special documentary on television called Happy Birthday Oor Wullie! It will be on BBC 1 on March 10th at 9:30pm. A host of Scottish stars will pay tribute to everyone's favourite cheekiest laddie. These include comedienne Karen Dunbar (Chewin' The Fat), actors Iain Robertson (Craig Stevenson in Sea of Souls) and Sanjeev Kohli (Navid from Still Game), Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan (sports programme Off The Ball presenters). Iain Robertson plays the voice of Oor Wullie. The Oor Wullie programme will be narrated by Billy Boyd, most famous for playing Pippin (Peregrin Took) in the Lord of the Rings Films and Malky in The Flying Scotsman.
The programme will also show the men behind the current cartoon strip published each week in the Sunday Post. These are the DC Thomson editor David Donaldson, artist Peter Davidson and the writer Tom Morton.
The surname of Oor Wullie will also be revealed. His surname has never been directly mentioned but is thought to be Russell. This was traced back to a cartoon strip in which Oor Wullie set off to join the army and he packed his uncle's kitbag.

Oor Wullie Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 Bid

In March 2007 Oor Wullie became the first virtual supporter of Glasgow's bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Abuja in Nigeria is the other city competing to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games and voting will take place in November 2007. Many real celebrities are behind the bid by Glesca City and this includes Andy Murray, Lorraine Kelly, Ashley Jensen, John Barrowman, Carol Smillie, Yvonne Murray, Ally McCoist, Brian Cox, Lulu, Sir Alex Ferguson, Julyan Sinclair, Duncan Bannatyne, Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan.

Find out more and give your support at www.glasgow2014.com

Oor Wullie Figurine

On Sunday 2 July 2006 The Sunday Post launched a limited edition Oor Wullie figurine ornament to celebrate his 70th anniversary. The first person to receive one of the figurines was actor Brian Cox, who plays Inspector McLevy on Radio 4. Brian Cox was presented with the statue during his 60th birthday party at Birkhill Castle in Fife.

The figurine statues would make great ornaments and are available to buy from £35. They are only available to purchase using the coupon in the Sunday Post newspaper.

Each Oor Wullie figurine is 23cm tall. The first batch run was for 2300 figurines. A second batch is to be made to help with the demand for these lovely figurines. They were designed and sculpted by Peter Davidson the artist who draws the Oor Wullie cartoon strips each week in the Sunday Post.

It is now no longer possible to buy the Oor Wullie figurine from The Sunday Post though some do come up for auction such as on the online site Ebay. The week before Christmas 2007 The Sunday Post ran a competition to win one of five Oor Wullie figurines that they had kept especially by as prizes. In the same week The Sunday Post presented a Broons figurine statue to the Scottish actor Ewan McGregor

Another Oor Wullie figurine was made available from The Sunday Post on the 2 November 2008. This new Oor Wullie figurine shows the loon sitting on his bucket with Jeemy his mouse by his side. He is dressed in his favourite blue dungarees and white shirt and tackety boots. The Oor Wullie figurine was limited to 2000 models and cost £40.

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Oor Wullie Carving

During the Scottish Woodfair 2008 event at Perth chainsaw sculptor Peter Bowsher sculpted an Oor Wullie carving using just a chainsaw. The Oor Wullie carving then went on display before being given to a competition winner as a top prize.

Oor Wullie Beach Hut

Visitors to Hopeman Beach in Moray, Scotland should look out for a beach hut which has been painted with a special cartoon of Oor Wullie. The Oor Wullie beach hut belong to lifelong fans Lorna and Donald Beattie. The Oor Wullie cartoon pictures were drawn and painted by one of their friends. It keeps in the tradition of the Sunday Post images of Oor Wullie by being painting black on white.

The Oor Wullie beach hut cartoon is about a shed competition that Wullie enters. Sadly Wullie and his shed do not win the competition. His mouse Jeemy is also pictured in the cartoon.

Famous People Who Have Been In Oor Wullie Cartoons

As an added bit of fun the writers and cartoonists of Oor Wullie often base the story line around famous Scottish celebrities. Famous people who have been in Oor Wullie cartoons include crime write Ian Rankin and musicians Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham.

Oor Wullie April Fools Day Joke

On the 1 April 2007 The Sunday Post Magazine, Post Plus, ran a feature about updating the image of Oor Wullie. This involved taking away his trusty bucket and giving him a designer beanbag designed by the soft furnishing company Change Or Nothing (CON). Readers were asked to visit the webpage www.sundaypost.com/magazine/wullie.htm for more information. This led to a picture of cheeky Oor Wullie holding up a sign that said April 1st!

In the Sunday Post newspaper of the same day their April Fool's prank was a joke about special smoking booths being built for Scottish pubs to help people cope with the smoking ban. These sealed booths were said to have piped music, a two way speaker so that smokers could still talk with their pub friends and an air ventilation system to carry away the smoke!

Comic Timing

In September 2008 Harrods in London had an exhibition called Comic Timing in which original artwork from comics through the decades were on display. These forty pieces of art included several from D.C. Thomson including Oor Wullie, Dennis the Menace, The Bash Street Kids, Korky the Cat and Commando.

The Comic Timing exhibition was part of the That's Entertainment promotion and ran from September to October 2008 at Harrods. The curator for Comic Timing was Rich Johnston a columnist who writes about comics and is an avid comic reader.