George Bestial

George Bestial was the only recurring character in a self-named "Viz" strip written by Barney Farmer and drawn by Lee Healey. Like Farmer and Healey's far more popular strip "Drunken Bakers", "George Bestial" featured typeset captions and typeset dialogue balloons, thus looking significantly different from the other "Viz" strips, which more typically use hand-lettered captions and dialogue.

George Bestial is an unshaven lout who attempts to engage (sometimes successfully) in sexual intercourse with animals of any or all species. On one occasion, he held a "pet contest" so that people would bring their pets to a room he hired for the purpose; in another strip, he pitched a tent in a farmer's field and tried to abduct a sheep. On the occasions when Bestial achieves his objective, there is always a closed door or some other visual device concealing the actual depiction.

The character's name suggests a parody of footballer George Best, noted for extreme behaviour on his own behalf (although not bestiality). There is a slight physical resemblance between George Bestial and George Best in his later days, but presumably the similarities go no farther. The last "George Bestial" instalment to date appeared in "Viz" about six months after the real George Best's death.