Punch Magazine Reborn Online

The Internet continues to breath new life into dying print publications. The classic British satirical magazine Punch, which closed down earlier this year after 161 years, has been reborn online. In addition to an archive of articles and cartoons from the magazine’s history, the site features new book, film and restaurant reviews. And its loyal aficionados can even continue discussing the magazine’s humor and swapping vintage issues in site’s Collectors’ Club section. Punch hopes to make money by selling high-quality copies of the magazine’s cartoons and licensing them. The new online magazine can be seen at punch.co.uk.

December 11, 2003 by
Filed Under: Business Bytes, Convergence, Great Sites, Great Work Gallery

COMMENTS

  • gibbs bray

    i have a complete collection of punch from 1841 latherbound and in good shape.How much is it worth if i would sell it now? thank you gibbs brayI have the complete collection of punch

  • robbo

    get me a copy of punch u bad boyz

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  • Clare

    I have issues April 7th – Sept 22 1943 inclusive. Any idea as to how much the collection would be worth.

    Many thanks,

    Clare.

  • Topsy Beves

    My father’s uncle’s father’s father collected Punch magazine from Volume the First (1840′s) and we have them up to the 1980s. The collection is vast and in excellent condition. Are there any collectors out there who might be interested?

  • Liz

    My great grandfather William Coulson Parkinson was a member of a committee known as The Ways and Means Committee. Which basically was a ‘morals promoting’ committee. He heard that naked ladies were performing on stage in a London Theatre. Disgusted he went to investigate and sat at the back of the theatre to watch the performance. Thus confirming that sure enough naked ladies were performing on stage. He started complaint process and the Punch Magazine heard about it all. However he can’t have been watching very closely as the naked ladies turned out to be only puppets. Punch published a cartoon of him dreaming about naked ladies while watching a puppet show in one of their issues. I was hoping someone may still have that issue and be able to photocopy the cartoon for out family records.
    Here’s hoping !!

  • liz

    In addition to the above posting!
    This issue I am searching for would have been around the year 1917

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been researching Alice in Wonderland cartoons by leafing through imy Punch collection and have not come across the one mentioned above, sorry. My fairly complete collection (1841 – 1944 or so) cost about $2000 a few years ago.

  • Andrew Ogus

    Does anyone have any idea what happened to the originals of the many wonderful cartoons Punch published? So many great cartoonists, so much great work. Where is it now?