Melbourne Punch
Melbourne Punch (from 1900, simply titled Punch) was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett,[1] and published from August 1855 to December 1925. The magazine was modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier.[2][3] A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch, was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.
History
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Ray and Sinnett published the magazine 1855–1883, followed by Alex McKinley 1883.[3]
Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886[4] – c. 1891.
Contributing artists included
Editors included Frederick Sinnett (1855–1857), James Smith (1857–1863), Charles Bright (1863–1866), William Jardine Smith (1866-1869), Tom Carrington (intermittently) and John Bede Dalley (1924).
Writers included Butler Cole Aspinall, Charles Gavan Duffy, R. H. Horne, James Smith, Thomas Carrington and Nicholas Chevalier.[3]
It was involved in the creation of The Ashes cricket trophy in 1883.
It incorporated the Melbourne Bulletin in 1886, after which it became more involved with "society" news.[3]
A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Kelly Gang in a satirical context.
It was acquired by The Melbourne Herald in 1924 and amalgamated with Table Talk in 1926.[5]
An annual, variously titled Punch Almanac, Melbourne Punch Almanack, Melbourne Punch's Office Almanack and similar, was published for a time.[6]
The publication was Folio size and initially contained 8 pages, increasing to 12 pages in 1878 and was 18 pages by 1891.[7] It sold for sixpence.
References
- ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ ISBN 0-09-135460-9
- ^ a b c d Melbourne Punch
- The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XXIII, no. 6, 736. South Australia. 7 June 1886. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ISBN 0-09-081420-7
- ^ Melbourne punch's almanack
- ISBN 0908094531
- Wilde, W. H.The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 2nd ed. ISBN 0-19-553381-X
Literature
Mahood, Marguerite The Loaded Line 1973
External links
- Digitised Melbourne Punch from the National Library of Australia
- Digitised World War I Victorian newspapers from the State Library of Victoria