| Sid Burgon | |
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| Full Name | Sidney William Burgon |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 3 October 1936 |
| Died | 12 October 2023 |
| Job | Artist |
| Strips Drawn | Biffo the Bear, Olaff the Madlander |
Sidney William Burgon (3 October 1936), better known as Sid Burgon, was a British comics artist.
After working as a Mechanic and drawing as a hobby he was encouraged by coworkers into furthering his artistic nature. He gave up his job in 1963 and became a freelance cartoonist with some of his early work being published The Weekly News under the Pseudonym Swab.
In 1970 Sid began working for Fleetway drawing a number of strips including Bookworm for Whoopee!, Joker for Knockout and Ivor Lott and Tony Broke for Buster (comics). Sid Burgon began to draw for DC Thomson in 1989, including a revival of Biffo the Bear in The Beano as a silent comic strip. He also drew Adrian the Barbarian for The Beezer, with a number of episodes later being reprinted in The Beano in 2008 under the new title of Olaff the Madlander. Sid stopped drawing for DC Thomson in the late 1990s/early 2000s, he died October 12th 2023 at the age of 87.
External links[]
- Sid Burgon (Wikipedia)