A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: WALLY AND OLLY

Wally and Olly. The series was about the World’s brainiest owl Olly and the World’s dimmest mouse Wally. The cunning Olly plotted all kinds of violent schemes involving explosives, chemical substances, sharp cutlery, mallets, trap holes, catapults, you name it, so as to eat the silly mouse. The schemes always backfired on the wicked owl. A lot like Tom and Jerry stuff, only here the mouse was an ignorant nitwit. It was another short-lived feature that started in the first issue and was dropped by the end of the first year: the last episode appeared on 17th October, 1970 (issue No. 20).

First episode from COR!! issue No. 1

I don’t know who the illustrator was but it looks like it was the work of one of those artists to whom historians of British comics usually refer as ‘European’. This has always puzzled me a bit, because when I was in school my Geography teacher taught us that Britain was also part of Europe…