Sid the Sexist he has single-mindedly committed himself: having sex." He is a coarse and unsophisticated 30-year-old who still lives with his mother, a fact which often poses as a stumbling block to any potential liaison, and is unable or unwilling to use any kind of decorum when approaching women, instead using outrageously crude lines that never succeed in achieving anything beyond rejection or a violent response from the woman in question. In one of his most famous examples from an early issue of "Viz", Sid approaches a woman with; "How, pet, my name's Sid. D'ya fancy a fuck?" When answered with a
King Features Syndicate the second-largest comics service, second only to Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication). In 1941, King Features manager Moses Koenigsberg wrote an autobiographical history of the company entitled "King News". William Randolph Hearst paid close attention to the comic strips, even in the last years of his life, as is evident in these 1945–46 correspondence excerpts, originally in "Editor & Publisher" (December 1946), about the creation of "Dick's Adventures in Dreamland" — a strip that made its debut on Sunday, January 12, 1947; written by former "Daily News" reporter Max Trell and illustrated by Neil O'Keefe (who also drew