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,
General Features The last new strip to debut with General Features was Phil Evans & Tom Cooke's space adventure strip "Drift Marlo", which started syndication in 1961. From that point forward, the syndicate stuck with strips that had begun their runs in the 1950s. In early 1967, General Features was sold to the Los Angeles Times Mirror Company for an estimated $1 million. Rex Barley, manager of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, took over as president of General Features Corp. Former board chairman S. George Little died in 1974, and that year General Features Corp. was fully absorbed into the L.A. Times