"Harold Lloyd" from Film Fun, 1930s
Thomas Radford was born in the third quarter of 1882 in Shoreditch, London, the son of a horse hair dresser. He worked as a freelance artist from his home in Cookham, Berkshire, for the comics of the Amalgamated Press. Strips he drew included:
- "Beatrix Buttercup" (1909) for Butterfly
- "The Shirkwork Brothers" (1910-1926) for Merry and Bright
- "Tiny and Tinkle" (1911) and "Ragtime Rex" (1914) for The Favourite Comic
- "Rooney's Rents (1911) for Puck
- "Racketty Row" (1912) for Jester
- "Ike and Mike" (1914) for Illustrated Chips
- "Ruff and Reddy" (1914) for Comic Cuts
- "McSharp" (1915) for Firefly
- "Jack Spratt" (1919) for Funny Wonder
- "Dick Whittington" (1919) for Chuckles
- "Harold Lloyd" (1920-), "Earle Montgomery and Joe Rock (1920), "Percy and Ferdie" (1921), "Gale Henry" (1924), "Schnozzle Durant" (1933), "Jackie Cooper" (1936), "Sydney Howard" (1936) and "Claude Dampier" (1937), "Claude Hulbert" (1938) for Film Fun
- "Max Linder" (1923) for Kinema Comic
- "Lulu and Pete" (1925) for Sunbeam.
His younger brother Bill was also a comics artist, working for many of the same titles in a similar style - confused AP staff occasionally sent payment to the wrong brother.
Tom died in Windsor, Berkshire, in the first quarter of 1941.
References[]
- Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, pp. 139-140
- Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987, p. 192
- Tom Radford at DanDare.info
