Angus Og (comic strip)

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.

Set on the fictional island of Drambeg, one of the equally fictional Utter Hebrides, it featured the eponymous Angus Og, and a whole host of other characters, including:

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 go wrong, as they invariably do. 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 seem to come from Glasgow), Bain took a similar approach, resembling the Parliamo Glasgow stereotype popularised by Stanley Baxter.

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