Julius Stafford Baker (1869–1961) was an

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cartoonist and creator of the series '' Tiger Tim''. His name is sometimes given as Julius Baker, Jr or II.

Biography

Born in

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, Baker was the son of Julius Baker, a one-time theatrical scene painter in London who died in the Turks Islands in 1904, and a nephew of John Philip Stafford (1851–1899), an artist who also worked as a cartoonist for the magazine ''

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''. Stafford taught the young Baker as an apprentice to draw at his studio in Fulham, and he went on to specialize in cartoons, firstly for adults and later for children. Apart from his covers for ''Funny Folks'', in the late 19th century his work appeared regularly in ''Judge'' in the US, first under the name Frank Martin, and later signing as J.S. Baker.'BAKER, JULIUS STAFFORD (1869-1961), British cartoonist' in

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, Richard Marschall, eds., ''The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons'', vol. 1 (Gale Research Co., 1980), p. 96 From 1902, Baker's Casey Court strip was a long-running success,Peter Hunt, ''International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'' (2012, ) and he became the creator of several more of the best-known children's cartoon characters of the

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, including '' Tiger Tim'' and ''The Bruin Boys''. The Tiger Tim character was created in the 1890s as a supplement to ''The World and His Wife'' magazine and was so successful that in 1920 it gained its own children's paper, ''

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'', also called ''The Rainbow''. Tim then proved to have a sister, in the shape of Tiger Tilly, who appeared in ''Tiger Tilly and the Hippo Girls''. However, Baker was eventually dismissed from the strip for having a style which was "too American", when it was taken over by Herbert Sydney Foxwell (1890–1943). Tiger Tim and his friends continued to appear in the weekly paper ''

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'' from 1954 until 1985. He was a regular exhibitor in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions from 1935 to about 1960. Baker should not be confused with his son Julius Stafford-Baker (1904–1988), who became one of the later artists of the '' Tiger Tim'' comic strip and much else besides, including serving as a

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war artist for the

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, or with his son, yet another Julius, who went on to found the Happy Dragons' Press. Because of the recurring name, many errors have been published.This correcting note is added by Julius Stafford Baker 4th

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1869 births 1961 deaths English cartoonists British comics artists People from Whitechapel {{cartoonist-stub