George and Lynne



George & Lynne, the liberated couple created by writer Conrad Frost, first appeared in The Sun in 1976 and their adventures continued to appear until 2010. The secret of their appeal? Possibly that they had the kind of married life every other couple in Britain wanted to have! For over thirty years (our time; aside from George ditching his seventies sideburns, the loving couple never aged or changed), George & Lynne live in comparative luxury in a well off riverside community, Lynne sunbathing nude and gossiping with her friends while George was (occasionally) at work or (more often) in the Ferryman's Inn, or the pair attending bikini parties or out on their expensive looking boat, the 'Pink Gin', at weekends. They have no apparent money worries, though this does not stop George moaning about Lynne's spending. They have an army of friends with mostly alliterative names, including amiable alcoholic Sammy and his long suffering wife Samantha. They have a huge house somewhere in Middlesex (according to Conrad Frost, who coincidentally had a similar one in the same area) and, as drawn by Josep Gaul, were effectively physically perfect. Well, except for those sideburns and the awful quiff on George...

They also famously had a very relaxed attitude to sex and nudity, and George compiled a nude calendar of Lynne every year, which hung in their kitchen.