Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.137.155.124-20130302205942

Julius Staffoird-Baker's series 'Hooligan' came to be the front cover for Funny Folks, and  he was very proud of this early sucess. His first published cartoon was in 1885 in a rather racy publication in newspaper style called Topical Times. He was then only 16 years old. Having started out training as a black and white artist in the studio of his Mothers Uncle, John Phillips Stafford, almost entirely with work aimed at adults - some for US magazines like Judge - where Hendersons the publishers seemes to have had a strong connection - by the later 1890s he was drawing a colour supplement to The World and His Wife, aimed at children which is the correct detail of first appearance of Tiger Tim and the Bruin Boys, unlike detail posted elsewhere. Scholars should note that the Newspaper Library at Hendon has indeed copies of Funny Folks, but they are (2013) literally falling apart, and cannot be expected to be acessed much longer.. Indeed this is true of much of that sort of publishing - its the paper is the problem, ultimately cheap with a straw fibre content, with horrendously high alkali levels. You want to see? go soon folks, and take cotton gloves..

Julius Stafford-Baker,  - His Grandson, who holds some archive.. 