In December 2016, Nicola Sturgeon featured Oor Wullie on a Christmas card, with the original illustration being auctioned for charity. Following the 80th anniversary in 2016, additional annuals of Oor Wullie were issued for 2016 and 2018, breaking from the biennial pattern. Between January 2005 and 2006, storylines were written by broadcaster Tom Morton from his home in Shetland, [3] and subsequently they were written by Dave Donaldson, managing director of Thomson's comics division. Between 2016 and 2017, artist Diego Jourdan Pereira filled in for Peter Davidson on Wullie, The Broons and Wee Harry. A facsimile of the first The Broons annual was released on 25 November 2006 and of the first Oor Wullie annual the following year, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the strip.

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Watkins continued to draw Oor Wullie until his death in 1969, after which the Post recycled his work into the 1970s. New strips were eventually commissioned from Tom Lavery, followed by Peter Davidson and Robert Nixon.

Wullie and his friends roam the streets of his town, though he is sometimes depicted at school which he finds confining.

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C. Thomson has also published a series of compilation books featuring The Broons and Oor Wullie on alternate pages. In 2019 Oor Wullie's BIG Bucket Trail 2019 was launched with 200 artistic interpretations of the figure at locations in cities across Scotland, [15] raising money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital, Glasgow Children's Hospital and the Archie Foundation. In celebration of Oor Wullie's 80th anniversary in 2016, he was the subject of a public art project when 55 decorated 5ft sculptures of him were placed around Dundee and its environs with another 13 touring round Scotland over an 8-week period. You can actually see the likeness': Force unearths story of Fife copper who was real-life inspiration for PC Murdoch, Oor Wullie's nemesis".

His trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and an upturned bucket, which he uses as a seat: most strips since early 1937 begin and end with a single panel of Wullie sitting on his bucket. His adventures often consist of unrealistic get-rich-quick schemes that lead to mischief, to the despair of his parents, Ma and Pa. When The Topper launched in 1953, Oor Wullie appeared in the masthead, although not as a story in the comic. People such as Nicola Sturgeon, Ewan McGregor, Andy Murray and Amy Macdonald have appeared in the strip over the years.

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Starting in 1940 the Oor Wullie strips also appeared in the form of a Christmas annual which alternated every second year with “ The Broons”, another D.