Burton Silver

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Burton Silver is a New Zealand cartoonist, parodist, writer, art critic, farmer, and inventor.

His best known cartoon series were 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), and OB (written under the pseudonym Roux), which had as its main characters a bird, a snake, and a rock. They were initially inspired by his time spent alone in the Australian outback.

He is also known for his cat art books (co-author, Heather Busch) Why Cats Paint, Why Paint Cats, and the popular Dancing with Cats series, as well as his spoofs Kokigami: The Intimate Art of the Little Paper Costume about 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 or may not be played in the UK in 2007. He is currently working on a website, heavenlycredits.com, as well as a book about relationships.