Angus Og (originally Angus Òg) is a comic strip created by Scottish cartoonist Ewen Bain. It ran from 1960 to December 1989, first in the Glasgow Bulletin and then in the Daily Record and The Sunday Mail. Background Set on the fictional island of Drambeg (dràma beag, a wee dram) in the Utter Hebrides (Outer Hebrides in Scots slang), it featured the eponymous Angus Og, and a whole host of other characters, including: Mrs Og, Angus's mother, and facially his virtual twin, distinguishable from Angus only by a headscarf and apron Donald, Angus's brother Lachie Mor, Angus's best friend Mairileen, Angus's erstwhile girlfriend, who is rarely seen without her black beret, and Bain's Hebridean homage to Marilyn Monroe Mr MacSonachan, the Minister Rosie the Highland Cow Granny McBrochan, the local spey-wife Constable McPhater The first story, published in the Bulletin in 1960, introduced Angus Og as a 'Highland beatnik', under the title "A Teenage Tangle of the Isles". "Òg" is Scottish Gaelic for "young", and "Angus" was seen as a stereotypical Highland first name. Angus Og was also the name of a figure in Gaelic mythology, a kind of love god, and a Scottish historical figure, a Lord of the Isles: it is possible that the name was an ironic reference to this. Bain used eye dialect for the strip to approximate (and knowingly stereotype) a Western Isles accent: hence chentleman (gentleman), Tonald (Donald), effery (every) as well as aspects of Scots, such as bachle (clumsy or useless person), crater (creature) and the near-ubiquitous Ochone! (Oh no!) whenever things went wrong, as they invariably did. Given the largely Lowland readership of the Daily Record, Bain used virtually no Gaelic beyond Angus's name, and the occasional Ciamar a tha thu? (How are you?). Whenever the story featured Glasgow or Glaswegians (Angus's relatives all seemed to come from Glasgow), Bain took a similar approach, resembling the Parliamo Glasgow stereotype popularised by Stanley Baxter. Angus Og has been described as the "archetypal cartoon teuchter". When he leaves the confines of the islands to go on holiday abroad, he still wears his wellington boots on the beach. Bain wrote over 100 stories during the strip's 28-year existence. Most stories ran to around 70 daily instalments, around 2 months each. However several were shorter. The final story, The Devil to Pay, was unfinished at the time of Bain's death. Plots Originally, Bain introduced an element