Sidney William Burgon (born 3 October 1936), better known as Sid Burgon, is a British comics artist. After working as a mechanic and drawing as a hobby he was encouraged by coworkers into furthering his artistic interests. He gave up his job in 1963 and became a freelance cartoonist with some of his early work being published

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under the

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Swab. In 1970 Burgon began working for

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drawing a number of strips including

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Whoopee! ''Whoopee!'' is a 1928 musical comedy play with a book based on Owen Davis's play, ''The Nervous Wreck.'' The musical libretto was written by William Anthony McGuire, with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. The musical premiered o ...

, Joker for

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and

Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Ivor Lott and Tony Broke was a British strip which originally appeared in the comic book ''Cor!!'' on 6 June 1970, before moving to '' Buster'' when the two comics merged in June 1974. The comic strip lasted until the final issue of ''Buster'' on ...

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. Burgon began to draw for

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in 1989 drawing a revival of

Biffo the Bear Biffo the Bear is a fictional character from the British comic magazine ''The Beano'' who stars in the comic strip of the same name, created in 1948 by Dudley D. Watkins. He was the mascot of ''The Beano'' for several decades. Background Biffo ...

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and

Adrian the Barbarian :''You may also be looking for Pope Adrian VI.'' Adrian the Barbarian (later Olaff the Madlander) was a comic strip in the comic The Beezer, and later the merged Beezer and Topper, first introduced in 1989. It featured a boy who dressed as a bar ...

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(which was recently reprinted in The Beano as Olaff the Madlander). Burgon stopped drawing for DC Thomson in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
he died October 12th 2023 at the age of 87.

Bibliography

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Bully Beef and Chips Bully Beef and Chips was a British comic strip, created by Jimmy Hughes. It first appeared in 1967 in the British comics magazine ''The Dandy''. In 2007, a set of ''Dandy'' comics, scripts and storyboards created by Hughes, including material f ...

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* Euro School for

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