The cheerful guy in our fanart Books cursor is George Beard, a fourth grader at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. He is best friends with Harold Hutchins and is one of the two main protagonists of the Captain Underpants series. George is an African-American nine-year-old fourth grader with a tie and a flat-top haircut. He is responsible for creating comic book characters such as Captain Underpants, Super Diaper Baby, Timmy the Talking Toilet, Dog Man, Ook and Gluk, and The Amazing Cow Lady.