Mabel F. Taylor

Mabel Francis Taylor (1866 in Kingswood – 1947 in Surrey; also M. F. Taylor) was an English cartoonist most well known for illustrating the comic strip "Jungle Jinks," which was the longest-running British comic series until 1954.

Biography Taylor was born to an Anglican clergyman and his wife in 1866 in Kingswood, Surrey.

Early comics Taylor started the comic "The Little Sparrowkins," in The Playbox (1905).

"Jungle Jinks" "Jungle Jinks" was the first comic in Britain whose main characters were animals. However, White worked on the comic for a short time before Taylor took over and began to write and illustrate it.

The comic was about group of anthropomorphic animals who attended school: Jacko the monkey, Hippo the hippopotamus, Bertie and Billie Boar (twin pigs), the headmaster Dr. Lion, and others. The strip was famous enough to serve as a catchphrase in popular culture during the 1920s.

The comic was also serialized in Home Chat during the 1940s.

"Dr. Lion's Boys," published in Happy Families (1938), was a spinoff of "Jungle Jinks."

Publications

Book Illustrations Anonymous, Little Snowdrop (London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., c. 1896) llustrated by Frances Brundage, M. Bowley, Edith & Mabel Taylor. Helen Marion Burnside, Antony Guest, and S. E. Bennett, Little Bright Eyes, edited by Edric Vredenburg (London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [1898?]). Illustrated by Frances Brundage, M. Bowley, Edith & Mabel Taylor. Farrow, G.E., The Jungle Baby, (London, et al.: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [no year given]). Illustrated by Mabel F. Taylor and Edith M. Taylor. In the Wilds, (London, et al: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [c. 1915]). Illustrated by G. Henry Thompson, Stavert J. Cash, Felix Leigh, Mabel F. Taylor, and William Foster.