Burton Silver is a cartoonist, parodist, writer, art critic and inventor. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Silver was born in Wellington and attended Wellington College, later completing a B.A. at Victoria University of Wellington. He worked initially as a boilermaker's assistant on Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia. After travelling in Asia he spent time in London, where he taught English. 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 . An earlier cartoon,... OB , 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.
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