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,
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