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Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.
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Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 1844 – 3 August 1910) was an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch for more than forty years and rising to the position of "First Cartoonist" in his final decade.
John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864) was a British caricaturist and illustrator. [1] He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
Mayhew depicted in London Labour and the London Poor (1861). Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days.
He also wrote novelettes and lyrics, [4] over a hundred songs, a few three-volume novels, several Christmas fairy tales and a volume of jests. [1] He was a stalwart of the London gentlemen's Savage Club. Lemon died in his adopted home town Crawley, West Sussex on 23 May 1870 and was buried in St Margaret's Church, Ifield.
Punch 26 April 1916 volume 150 no. 3903 Okay, not so soon, but it was dropped, and even if it hadn't been, it's still a subtitle, and not part of the title. Compare to Moby-Dick: I'm sure "or the White Whale" appears in every edition., but it's a subtitle, not a title. BTW, here's Punch in 1916, with no "Charivari" in sight.