Sid the Sexist plan was a non-starter and was unlikely to find a willing TV station to broadcast the show if it were written in the same style as the comic. Sid the Sexist Sid the Sexist (real name Sidney Aloysius Smutt) is a character from the British satirical comic "Viz", first appearing in issue 9 in October 1982. The strip was created and mostly drawn by Simon Donald until he left the magazine in 2003, when Paul Palmer took over as artist. According to Donald, "Sid is a man who is unable to communicate with women. He is desperate to impress them,
Dolly Dimples (comic strip) and Bobby Blake in Storyland" (Philadelphia Press, 1905–1906) and "The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptain Kiddo" (1909), both written by Drayton's sister Margaret G. Hays. As "Dottie Dimple," she next appeared in the Hearst syndicated strip of the same name, which ran from 1908 to 1911. She was again featured in Drayton's strip "Dimples" which ran with Hearst from January 1914 to 1918. Finally, the character was part of the King Features strip "Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce" (with the topper strip "Kittens"), syndicated from 1928 to the Spring of 1933. As described by King Features' archivist, the character "was a