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British comics artist

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 The Weekly News under the pseudonym Swab. In 1970 Burgon 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). Burgon began to draw for DC Thomson in 1989 drawing a revival of Biffo the Bear in The Beano and Adrian the Barbarian for The Beezer (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

Fleetway

DC Thomson

References

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v t e Amalgamated Press / Fleetway / IPC / Rebellion Developments comics
Pre-War humorous comics	Comic Cuts Film Fun Funny Wonder Illustrated Chips Knockout (stories) Radio Fun
Post-War humorous comics	Buster Cheeky Weekly Cor!! Jackpot Knockout Krazy Monster Fun Nipper Oink! School Fun Shiver and Shake Whizzer and Chips Whoopee! Wow!
Power Comics	Wham! Smash! Pow! Fantastic Terrific
Adventure comics	2000 AD Action (stories) Battle Picture Weekly (stories) Boys' World The Champion The Comet (stories) Crisis (stories) Diceman Eagle Eagle (1982 version) (stories) Hurricane Jag Jet Judge Dredd Megazine Lion (stories) Look and Learn M.A.S.K. Ranger Revolver Roy of the Rovers Scorcher Scream! Sonic the Comic Speed Starlord Sun (stories) Supernaturals Thriller Comics Thunder Tiger (stories) Tornado Valiant (stories) Vulcan War Picture Library Wildcat
Girls' comics	Girl Girls' Crystal (stories) Jinty June (stories) Marilyn Misty Poppet Princess (stories) Princess Tina (stories) Roxy Sandie School Friend (stories) Serenade Tammy Tina Valentine
Pre-school comics	Jack and Jill Playhour
Comic strips	The 10,000 Disasters of Dort The 12½p Buytonic Boy Ace Trucking Co. Action Force Adam Eterno The Amazing Three Anderson, Psi-Division The Astounding Adventures of Charlie Peace The Astounding Jason Hyde Baker's Half-Dozen The Ballad of Halo Jones Battler Britton Bessie Bunter Bible John - A Forensic Meditation Big Dave Billy Bunter Billy's Boots Birdman and Chicken The Black Archer Black Beth Black Max Black Hawk Bloodfang Bobby's Ghoul Bookworm The Bootneck Boy The Bumpkin Billionaires Buster Capp Captain Condor Captain Hurricane The Cat Girl Chalky Charley's War Clash of the Guards Cliff Hanger Computer Warrior Cursitor Doom D-Day Dawson D.R. & Quinch Dan Dare Danny Doom Dare Darkie's Mob Death Game 1999 Death Squad Death Wish Defoe Doomlord The Dracula File Dredger Durham Red The Dwarf End of the Line... Ernie Faceache Fiends of the Eastern Front Fight for the Falklands Finn Fishboy For a Few Troubles More Gadgetman and Gimmick-Kid Goldtiger Grimly Feendish Harlem Heroes Hellman of Hammer Force Hook Jaw Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse The House of Daemon The House of Dolmann The Indestructible Man Invasion! Invasion 1984! Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Jack o' Justice Jane Bond Jet-Ace Logan Joe Alien Johnny Red Joker Judge Dredd Junior Rotter Karl the Viking Kid Chameleon Kids Rule O.K. Kitten Magee Lazy Bones The Leopard from Lime Street Loner Look Out for Lefty! Luck of the Legion M.A.C.H. 1 Major Eazy Manix Master Mind Mazeworld Memory Banks El Mestizo Mind Wars Monster Mustapha Million Mytek the Mighty Nemesis the Warlock The New Adventures of Hitler New Statesmen The Nightcomers Nikolai Dante Odd Ball One-Eyed Jack The Phantom Viking Rat Pack Really & Truly Richie Wraggs Ro-Busters Rob Riley The Robo Machines Robot Archie Rogan Gosh Rogue Trooper Roy of the Rovers School Belle Sexton Blake Sid's Snake The Silent Three Sinister Dexter Skid Kidd Skizz Sláine The Spider The Steel Claw Steel Commando Store Wars Strontium Dog The Suicide Six Sweeny Toddler Sweet Tooth Terror of the Cats Tharg the Mighty Tharg's Future Shocks Third World War The Thirteenth Floor Thunderbolt Jaxon Time Flies Tom Thug Tomboy The Tower King Tricky Dicky The Trigan Empire Troubled Souls True Faith Turbo Jones The Vigilant Watch Out Beagle's About Whacky Wonder Wellies X-Ray Specs Zenith
Notable staff	Leo Baxendale Massimo Belardinelli Jesús Blasco Brian Bolland Eric Bradbury Kenneth Bulmer Sid Burgon Reg Bunn Mike Butterworth Geoff Campion Joe Colquhoun John Cooper Ted Cowan Carlos Ezquerra Gerry Finley-Day Dave Gibbons Ian Gibson Scott Goodall Alan Grant Yvonne Hutton Ian Kennedy Tom Kerr Don Lawrence Brian Lewis Steve MacManus Leonard Matthews Mike McMahon Trevor Metcalfe Pat Mills Grant Morrison Robert Nixon Kevin O'Neill José Ortiz Frank S. Pepper Ken Reid Jerry Siegel Francisco Solano López Lew Stringer Barrie Tomlinson Tom Tully John Wagner Keith Watson Mike Western
See also	Albion Egmont Toxic! Treasury of British Comics List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications

v t e DC Thomson comics
Currently running comics	The Beano Commando Fun Section in The Sunday Post
Adventure comics	Adventure Bullet Buddy Champ Commando The Crunch The Hornet The Hotspur The Rover The Skipper Spike Starblazer The Vanguard The Victor Warlord The Wizard
Girls' comics	Bunty Judy Mandy Nikki
Humour comics	The Beano The Beezer Buzz Classics from the Comics Cracker The Dandy EPIC Magazine Fun Size Comics Hoot The Magic Comic Nutty Plug Sparky The Topper
Pre-school comics	Bimbo The Magic Comic Twinkle
Notable strips	Alf Tupper Baby Crockett Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beryl the Peril Black Bob Biffo the Bear Big Eggo The Broons Calamity James Cuddles and Dimples Dennis the Menace Desperate Dan Ginger Gnasher Ivy the Terrible Jonah Keyhole Kate Korky the Cat Little Plum Lord Snooty Matt Braddock Mickey the Monkey Minnie the Minx Nero and Zero The Numskulls Oor Wullie Pansy Potter Send for Kelly Roger the Dodger Tricky Dicky Willy Nilly Winker Watson Wilson the Wonder Athlete Wolf of Kabul
Comic annuals	The Beano Annual The Beezer Book The Bimbo Book The Dandy Annual The Hotspur Book for Boys The Sparky Book The Topper Book The Victor Book for Boys Warlord Book for Boys
Character annuals	Bananaman Annual The Bash Street Kids Annual Beryl the Peril Annual Black Bob Book The Broons Annual Dennis the Menace Annual The Desperate Dan Book Oor Wullie Annual
Notable artists	Barrie Appleby Nigel Auchterlounie Leo Baxendale Gordon Bell Nick Brennan Paddy Brennan Sid Burgon Reg Carter Wilbur Dawbarn Karl Dixon The Etherington Brothers Hunt Emerson Andy Fanton John Geering Barry Glennard Charles Grigg Ken H. Harrison Laura Howell Diego Jourdan Malcolm Judge David Law Trevor Metcalfe Allan Morley David Mostyn Vic Neill Robert Nixon Gary Northfield Nigel Parkinson Tom Paterson Jim Petrie Ken Reid Bill Ritchie David Parkins Jon Rushby Jamie Smart Lew Stringer David Sutherland Kev F. Sutherland Dudley D. Watkins Stevie White
Notable writers	Mike Chinn Gilbert Lawford Dalton Alan Grant Ian Gray R. D. Low Grant Morrison John Radford Cavan Scott John Smith
See also	List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of Beano comic strips List of Dandy comic strips List of Topper comic strips List of Beezer comic strips List of Beezer and Topper comic strips
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