Truth (magazine)
 March 1900 cover, Volume XIX no. 3 | |
| Editor | Blakely Hall |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly to monthly |
| Year founded | 1881 |
| Final issue | 1905 |
| Country | United States |
Truth magazine was both a weekly magazine and a monthly reader published from 1881 until 1905 in the United States.[1] Its subtitle was "The Brightest of Weeklies".[2]
The publication was founded in 1881 as a society journal. It was on hiatus from 1884 until 1886, and was revamped starting in 1891 under new editor , who spiced up the publication by adding more pictures of women to its pages, more social satire, and color. Circulation grew to 50,000 subscribers at that point.[3][4][5]
Originally a weekly, it transitioned to a monthly publication in 1898, among other numerous changes the publication regularly underwent to its contents and size. It ceased publication in 1905.[6][7]
Contributors[]
A non-exhaustive list of notable contributors to Truth includes:
- Stephen Crane, published several short stories
- George Luks, illustrator, over 234 drawings published between 1891 and 1894.[6]
- Rose O'Neill, illustrator
- Richard F. Outcault, creator of The Yellow Kid comic strip, and whose character first appeared as a minor character in Truth
References[]
- ^ "The R. F. Outcault Reader Vol. 8, #4 - 3".
- ^ subtitle reference
- ^ Mount, Nicholas James. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York, p. 58 (2005)
- ^ Sloane, Davie E.E. (ed.) American humor magazines and comic periodicals, p. 289-90 (1987)
- ^ The Man About Town, Art in Advertising, Vol. I., No. 4, p. 118 (December 1891) (report on revamped Truth)
- ^ a b Gambone, Robert L. Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks, p. 20 (University Press of Mississippi, 2009)
- ^ Adcock, John (29 July 2012). TRUTH, ever changing – weekly 1881-98, monthly 1899-1905 , Yesterday's Papers (source is a technically a "blog", but content is well sourced and written by established writer and illustrator)
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