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He took over "[[The Bruin Boys]]" from [[Julius Stafford Baker (1869-1961)|Julius Stafford Baker]] for ''[[The Rainbow]]'' in 1914, and it was [[Tiger Tim]], the lead character of this strip, which was to make his name. By the late 1920s Tiger Tim appeared in ''The Rainbow'', ''[[Playbox]]'' and ''[[Tiger Tim's Weekly]]'' as well as various annuals. |
He took over "[[The Bruin Boys]]" from [[Julius Stafford Baker (1869-1961)|Julius Stafford Baker]] for ''[[The Rainbow]]'' in 1914, and it was [[Tiger Tim]], the lead character of this strip, which was to make his name. By the late 1920s Tiger Tim appeared in ''The Rainbow'', ''[[Playbox]]'' and ''[[Tiger Tim's Weekly]]'' as well as various annuals. |
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⚫ | He also drew "[[The Dolliwogs' Dolls' House]]" (1914-) and "[[Sam the Skipper]]" for ''The Rainbow'', "[[Pinky and Patsy]]" (1919-) and "[[The Tiny Toy Boys]]" (1920-) for ''Tiger Tim's Weekly'', "[[The Bunty Boys]]" (1921-) ''[[Bubbles]]'', and "[[The Hippo Girls]]" (1925-) and "[[Chummy Boys]]" (1930-) for ''Playbox''. He excelled at comic animals and was one of the few artists the AP allowed to sign his work. |
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β | In 1915 he drew one of the earliest British newspaper strips, ''[[Helpful Horace]]'' in the ''Sunday Pictorial'', the weekly sister paper of the ''Daily Mirror''. |
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He left the AP in 1933, taking over ''[[Teddy Tail]]'' in the ''Daily Mail'' from [[Harry Folkard]], which he drew until 1941, and drawing for ''[[Jolly Jack's Weekly]]'', a comic supplement of the ''Sunday Dispatch''. |
He left the AP in 1933, taking over ''[[Teddy Tail]]'' in the ''Daily Mail'' from [[Harry Folkard]], which he drew until 1941, and drawing for ''[[Jolly Jack's Weekly]]'', a comic supplement of the ''Sunday Dispatch''. |
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*Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, pp. 60-61 |
*Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, pp. 60-61 |
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*Denis Gifford, ''Encyclopedia of Comic Characters'', Longman, 1987 |
*Denis Gifford, ''Encyclopedia of Comic Characters'', Longman, 1987 |
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β | *Denis Gifford, ''The history of the British Newspaper Comic Strips'', Shire Publications Ltd, 1971 |
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*[http://www.paulmason.info/Artworks/HerbertFoxwell.html Herbert Foxwell at Art of British Comic Artists] |
*[http://www.paulmason.info/Artworks/HerbertFoxwell.html Herbert Foxwell at Art of British Comic Artists] |
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