Punch, Or the London Charivari, volume 1, December 25, 1841
The first volume of English weekly comic magazine appeared on the seventeenth of June 1841. The permanent author of “Punch”, being illustrated bourgeois liberal periodical, for some period of time was William Makepeace Thackeray. After 1848 the magazine lost its democratic orientation and in the late nineteenth century passed to conservative positions. Today famous English writers, critics and caricaturists present their works in “Punch”, which number of copies makes up about 130 thousand.
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