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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.
Tenniel contributed around 2,300 cartoons, innumerable minor drawings, many double-page cartoons for Punch's Almanac and other specials, and 250 designs for Punch's Pocket-books. [9] By 1866 he could "command ten to fifteen guineas for the reworking of a single Punch cartoon as a pencil sketch," alongside his "comfortable" Punch salary "of ...
Shortly after the Publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, Linley Sambourne's cartoon Man Is But a Worm was published in Punch's Almanack. It depicts the evolution of the worm into the human – in this case, the English gentleman – as a means of ridiculing Darwin's theory.
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.
Pages in category "Punch (magazine) cartoonists" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
“Here’s some stuff this guy Paul thinks is funny,” wrote the artist of these, in our opinion, hilarious one-panel comics. Paul is a brilliant cartoonist and author whose work has captivated ...
Drew Panckeri has come a long way from the kid who spent recess sketching funny drawings instead of playing outside. Born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, he earned his degree in multimedia and web ...
J.B. Handelsman (February 5, 1922 – June 20, 2007) was a New York-born cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared for decades in The New Yorker, Punch, Playboy, and other United States and British publications. His sister was American writer Edith Anderson.