Scripts
Storylines were written by the singer and writer George Melly, the comedian Barry Took, the musician Humphrey Lyttelton and the film critic Barry Norman.
The ironic and bohemian ethos of the strip was curiously at variance with the stuffy conservatism of the Daily Mail. In fact, Flook ran for a while at the opposite end of the British press's political spectrum, since the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror (diametrically opposed to the Mail's right wing stance) also ran the strip on their cartoon pages for a few years.
Flook was also adopted as a mascot by 831 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, and the character was painted on the squadron aircraft.
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