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
General Features that explained word and phrase origins in laypersons' terms; the "Air-Western-Adventure Strip" "Gene Autry", produced beginning in 1952 through an arrangement with Whitman Publishing; and Hoffman's "Jeff Cobb", which debuted in 1954 and ran for two decades. Mell Lazarus, later to have much success with his strip "Momma", created two children's strips for General Features, "Li'l Ones" and "Wee Women", both of which debuted in 1955 and ended in 1974 (with the later work of Jim Whiting). John Henry Rouson had a number of strips with General Features, including "Ladies Day" and the long-running "Boy and Girl" and "Little Sport".