Gil Baker
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Gil Baker is an American cartoonist and painter born 11 August 1965, chiefly known for the strip Danny Dare, a postmodern confabulation parodying the classic boy adventure strips of the past. He publishes through Janissary Graffix. Baker's work is self-identified as most influenced by Alex Toth and the Spanish maestro Jesús Blasco, but some of his thematic ideas bear a resemblance to Jack Kirby and his style even more so to Barry Blair.
A typical Baker hero is an energetic and angry pubescent male on a mission of total destruction, in plot-heavy stories of convoluted conspiracies, violence, and pop-acculturated contempt.
Baker has lived throughout the United States, most notably in Ohio, Charleston, South Carolina, and Hawthorne, California. His experiences on the beaches of both coasts strongly contributed to his strip Surfhawk.
