Defend the Indefensible: George and Lynne.

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― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

OMG you can get George and Lynne online????????

Lynne is ageless but I don't fancy "'Mantha" much.

Also that strip is very atypical G&L.

Unless they've changed the formula so that it's now a lame joke strip in which case BOO HISS.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

No archive, sadly.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Anyway a defence of G&L would rest on it being in a harmless tradition of cheesecake art (starting with 'Jane' in the UK) and on it having some value as a record of trivial social concerns. I'm interested in whether the world of G&L is meant to reflect Sun readers' actual lives, or the lives they aspire to, or neither.

The other interesting thing about G&L is that while I guess most people's preconceptions of them are of vaguely sleazy swingers their actual love life appears to be pretty monogamous and vanilla.

If Manara or someone drew George and Lynne everyone would think it was a classic, so it's not the idea of the strip that's at fault or even the apallingly lame writing, it's the reliably boring and sketchy drawing.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

it is the sexlives of the letraset set!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

The lives Sun readers aspire to, definitely.
Has anyone else read Yellow Dog? Remember the Readers' Wives?

― Ray (Ray), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Fuck man, I aspire to George's life and I would never even read the Sun! That guys got it made (except for that bit where they introduced continuity and Lynne was gonna have an affair!)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I think Mantha's quite fit.

― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

i would rather read nothing but george and lynne for the rest of my days than even open yellow dog

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I, the Dirty Vicar, hereby make your wish come true.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

How far along are you into it now, mark? And do you find your deal with the vicar to have been ultimately rewarding?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

George And Lynne used to be drawn by John Burns, who's a great artist, which proved that even the best art going can't save lame writing.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

George and Lynne = the Gambols w/ tits!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.goaste.cx/goaste/georgeandlynne002.html

Reading this page from top to bottom just made me laugh harder than more or less anything else ever. Try to read Page 1 first though to build up to it

― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Friday, 14 May 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.goaste.cx/goaste/pictures/georgeandlynne/post-115-1174741770.jpg

― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Friday, 14 May 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)

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