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[]
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.
Contributing artists included J. C. Bancks, Luther Bradley, , George Dancey, Tom Carrington, Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson, S. T. Gill, Samuel Calvert, Alex Gurney, Hal Gye, Percy Leason, Emile Mercier, , Montague Scott, Alf Vincent and Cecil "Unk" White.[2][4]
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.[4]
An annual, variously titled Punch Almanac, Melbourne Punch Almanack, Melbourne Punch's Office Almanack and similar, was published for a time.[5]
The publication was Folio size and initially contained 8 pages, increasing to 12 pages in 1878 and was 18 pages by 1891.[6] It sold for sixpence.
References[]
- ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b Lindesay, Vane The Inked-In Image Heinemann Melbourne 1970 ISBN 0-09-135460-9
- ^ a b c d Melbourne Punch
- ^ a b McCullough, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968 ISBN 0-09-081420-7
- ^ Melbourne punch's almanack
- ^ Lurline Stuart (1979), Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals; an annotated bibliography, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, p.109. 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
- Defunct magazines published in Australia
- Magazines established in 1855
- Magazines disestablished in 1925
- 1855 establishments in Australia
- Magazines published in Melbourne
- 1925 disestablishments in Australia
- Satirical magazines
- Weekly magazines published in Australia