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Sidney Sime was born in Manchester in 1867. He worked in a coalmine as a child and later found employment as a draper, barber and signwriter. Eventually Sime entered the Liverpool School of Art.

By the 1890s Sime was contributing to numerous periodicals including The Graphic, The Illustrated London News, The Tatler, the Strand Magazine and Punch Magazine. He also became editor of Eureka and co-editor of The Idler.

In the 1900s he withdrew to the village of Worpleston in Surrey where he worked on book illustrations. His books include The Gods of Pegana (1905), Time and the Gods (1906), The Sword of Welleran (1908), The Ghosts Pirates (1909), A Dreamer's Tale (1910), Tales of Wonder (1916) and The Bogey Beasts (1923). Sidney Sime died in 1941. A collection of his work is preserved in a small museum at Worplesdon.

 

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