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,
Sid McMath magazine at arktimes.com and an expanded review in the August 13, 2012 issue of the same publication, with numerous additional photographs; Professor Jim Lester's biography, "A Man for Arkansas: Sid McMath and the Southern Reform Tradition", (Rose, 1976); Professor James Woods' monograph, " The Era of Sid McMath, Arkansas Political Leader, 1946–1954" (privately published, 1975); Robert Sherrill, "Gothic Politics of the Deep South: Stars of the New Confederacy" (Grossman, 1968); and Professor V.O. Key's classic, "Southern Politics in State and Nation" (Alfred Knopf Co., 1949; University of Tennessee Press, 1984, , and various subsequent editions), and sources and materials cited