12 Facts About Sid Barron

Sidney Arnold Barron was a Canadian editorial cartoonist and artist.

Sid Barron's cartoons were satirical takes on social mores, and often contained a biplane towing a banner, and a bored-looking cat, holding a card bearing a wry comment.

Later in life, Barron moved to Vancouver Island, where he and his wife opened an art studio and gallery.

Sid Barron attended South Park Elementary School and Victoria High School and grew up around the shipping port at Victoria's breakwater, where he developed a passion for sketching boats.

Sid Barron had a pronounced stammer as a child, and was treated for it at age 21 at the National Hospital for Speech Disorders in New York.

Sid Barron started to paint harbours, ships and beach scenes in watercolour and tempera.

Sid Barron did some war illustrations for the Toronto Star.

Sid Barron was used by the Star Weekly as a freelance illustrator until the magazine began purchasing illustrations from American syndicates as a cost-saving measure.

Sid Barron then spent the rest of the 1950s seeking work in BC and Ontario.

In 1958 Stu Keate, publisher of the Victoria Daily Times, asked Sid Barron to produce editorial cartoons.

Sid Barron had been married twice before when he met fellow artist Jesi at an art therapy class in 1975, and married her in 1977.

Ten years later, Sid Barron died at Mount St Mary Hospital, on April 29,2006, age 88.