Punch (magazine)

Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002.

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British - Magazine - Humour - Satire - 1841 - 1992 - 1996 - 2002

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It was founded in July 17, 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. At its founding, it was subtitled The London Charivari, a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France under the title Le Charivari. Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, they took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch; the name also referred to a joke made early on about the magazine's first editor, Mark Lemon, that "punch is nothing without lemon." Punch was responsible for the modern use of the word 'cartoon' to refer to a comic drawing. The illustrator Archibald Henning designed the cover of the magazine's first issues. The cover design varied in the early years, though Richard Doyle designed what became the magazine's masthead in 1849.

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July 17 - Henry Mayhew - Ebenezer Landells - France - Le Charivari - Puppet - Mr. Punch - Mark Lemon - Punch - Lemon - Cartoon - Archibald Henning - Richard Doyle - Masthead

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Circulation peaked during the 1940s when it reached 175,000, but slowly declined over the years, until the magazine was forced to close in 1992 after 150 years of publication.

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1940s - 1992

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