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Burton Silver
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Burton Silver is a cartoonist, parodist, writer, art critic, farmer, and inventor. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
His best known cartoon series was written for the New Zealand Listener - Bogor, which dealt with a lone woodsman and the forest animals that were his only companions (especially a hedgehog). An earlier cartoon, OB (written under the pseudonym "Roux"), had as its main characters a bird, a snake, and a rock, and was initially inspired by Silver's time spent in the Australian outback. Bogor originally appeared in the Listener in 1973, and was New Zealand's longest-running published cartoon series.
He is also known for his humorous cat art books (co-author, Heather Busch): Why Cats Paint, Why Paint Cats, and the popular Dancing with Cats, as well as his spoofs Kokigami: The Intimate Art of the Little Paper Costume (Japanese paper decoration for the genitals), and the self-explanatory The Naughty Victorian Hand Book: The Rediscovered Art of Erotic Hand Manipulation.
One of his more recent inventions is the sport of Golfcross, played on a golf course with aerial goal-nets and a golf ball in the shape of a rugby ball. The first ever world championship may possibly be played in the UK in late 2007. He is currently working on a website (heavenlycredits.com), as well as a book about relationships.
- Burton Silver's page at publisher Ten Speed Press
- A gallery of all the covers of the Bogor collections
- A gallery of phonecards released by Telecom New Zealand featuring Bogor's hedgehog
- Museum of Non Primate Art
- New Zealand GolfCross
- Kokigami!
- Why Paint Cats?
- Review, Why Paint Cats?
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