Portal:Punch
Punch was an influential British weekly magazine of humour and satire, published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002.
Editors
[edit]- Mark Lemon (1841–1870)
- Henry Mayhew (1841–1842)
- Charles William Shirley Brooks (1870–1874)
- Tom Taylor (1874–1880)
- Francis Burnand (1880–1906)
- Owen Seaman (1906-1932)
- E.V. Knox (1932-1949)
Contributors
[edit]Punch was known for its short articles and frequent part- or full-page cartoons. Among the well-known cartoonists that contributed to Punch are:
- Richard Doyle
- John Leech
- Charles Keene
- John Tenniel
- Edward Linley Sambourne
- George du Maurier
- Bernard Partridge
And among the writers:
- Douglas William Jerrold
- George du Maurier
- John McCrae
- A. A. Milne
- Anthony Powell
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
- Thackeray
- Henry Lucy
- Artemus Ward
- Somerset Maugham
- P.G. Wodehouse
- Keith Waterhouse
- Quentin Crisp
- Olivia Manning
- Sylvia Plath
Books Reviewed in Punch
[edit]One regular feature in Punch was "Our Booking Office", a book review column. This provides an interesting glimpse into the 'middlebrow' literature of the time, rather than the highbrow material reviewed by literary journals.
Information on the Books Reviewed by Punch.
Volumes
[edit]Scans of all public domain volumes of Punch are available from the Internet Archive.
The only volume with a currently active transcription project on Wikisource is:
- Volume 147 (July-December 1914) (transcription project)
The following volumes have been worked on in the past, but are not currently actively being transcribed:
- Volume 1 (1841) (transcription project)
- Volume 79
- Volume 122 (1902) (transcription project)
- Volume 148 (1915) (transcription project)