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
Seventeen (American magazine) as a distinct demographic originated in that era. In July 1944, King Features Syndicate began running the comic strip "Teena", created by cartoonist Hilda Terry, in which a typical teenager's life was examined. "Teena" ran internationally in newspapers for twenty years. After "Seventeen" was launched in September 1944, Estelle Ellis Rubenstein, the magazine's promotion director, introduced advertisers to the life of teenage girls through "Teena", selling advertising in "Seventeen" at the same time. From 1945 to 1946, the magazine surveyed teen girls in order to better understand the magazine's audience. The magazine became an important source of information to manufacturers