The Mldlifestyle `George and Lynn.': Notes on a Popular Strip.

This article presents information on a Popular Strip George and Lynne which appears each day in one of Great Britain's most popular newspaper "Sun." The central characters are an affluent married couple living in a spacious house on the banks of a river. The casual nakedness of the main characters in the George and Lynne strip is a major innovation. The strip has democratized the body beautiful with George like his partner presented as attractive, glamorous and sexy - a marked contrast to the oversimplified caricatures of men which appeared in earlier strips of couples. The fact that women readers find George attractive was recently confirmed by Conrad Frost, George and Lynne's creator, who commented that in the 1950's the reader response to strips such as `The Heart of Juliet Jones' was predominately from men. In the case of the George and Lynne strip the majority of letters come from women and it is they, not the men who write the `unpublished' letters. Many of the letters come from groups of three or four young women working in offices or shops who ask for full frontal nudes of George.