Punch (magazine)

Punch or The London Charivari was a satirical magazine that was founded in 1841 in London by Henry Mayhew and Ebenezer Landells Xylografen.

Punch Cartoon coined the term to refer to a comic or satirical drawing. The figurehead of the magazine was the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch. Subtitled The London Charivari wore the sheet in allusion to the French satirical magazine Le Charivari.

The illustrator Richard Doyle designed the first title pages of the magazine and was one of the permanent members of staff.

Among the most renowned authors of the paper included John Betjeman, AA Milne, Anthony Powell, WC Sellar, RJ Yeatman, William Thackeray and John Tenniel.

The Punch coined the British cultural history through numerous drawings and publications that are in the collective memory still present, such as various caricatures to the new teachings of Charles Darwin ( " The socialite Lord gorilla ") or the anti-war poem " In Flanders Fields " by 1915.

His highest circulation had the Punch in the 1940s, with about 175,000 copies. Since then, however, the circulation dropped so much that the magazine in 1992, had to be after more than 150 years, is set. The Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al -Fayed bought the rights to the name in 1996 and rolled in the same year to a relaunch of the magazine. Due to lack of success, but it was discontinued in May 2002, only 6,000 subscribers again.

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