Sid the Sexist 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, but is totally lacking in social skills. He thinks he must use foul and offensive chat-up lines on women to impress his friends, but can't see why they
Farley (comic strip) Farley (comic strip) Farley was an American comic strip written and drawn by Phil Frank, which appeared daily (except Saturday) in the "San Francisco Chronicle". The strip originally began in 1975 as "Travels With Farley", a play on John Steinbeck's "". "Farley" began as a nationally syndicated strip with Chronicle Features, but Frank missed the "timeliness and joy of doing local politics" and, dissatisfied with the four-to-six week lead time required of syndication, in 1985 switched to working exclusively for the "Chronicle", which enabled him to quickly mine local events—usually overnight—for his satire. Phil Frank died on September 12, 2007,