Oor Wullie is a Scottish
comic strip published in the
D.C. Thomson newspaper
The Sunday Post. It features a character called Wullie, the familiar
Scots nickname for boys named William.
Oor Wullie means
Our Willie. His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned
bucket, which he often uses as a seat - most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket. The earliest strips, with little dialogue, ended with Wullie complaining ("I nivver get ony fun roond here!"). The artistic style settled down by 1940 and has changed little since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!).