Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon commenting on the 1867 visit of the Sultan to Britain.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

By 1866 he was " able to command ten to fifteen guineas for the reworking of a single Punch cartoon as a pencil sketch ", alongside his " comfortable " Punch salary " of about £ 800 a year ".

On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.

Bismarck was discarded (" dropping the pilot " in the words of the famous Punch cartoon ), promoted to the rank of " Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal " ( so-called because the German Army did not appoint full Field Marshals in peacetime ) and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when travelling incognito.

Punch was responsible for the word sense " cartoon " as a comic drawing.

Punch gave several phrases to the English language, including The Crystal Palace, and the " Curate's egg " ( first seen in an 1895 cartoon ).

* Dropping the Pilot – 1890 Punch cartoon

* Punch cartoon library, including a history of the magazine

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon from June 17.

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon depicting the end of Sardou's La Tosca, 1888

A Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon, by Leonard Raven-Hill depicting the perceived aggression between Taft and Roosevelt.

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon, 1877, portraying Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty | First Lord of the Admiralty William Henry Smith ( 1825 – 1891 ) | W. H. Smith as a Glossary of nautical terms # L | land-lubber, saying: " I think I'll now go below.

* The IGY was featured in a cartoon by Russell Brockbank in Punch magazine in November 1956.

File: Wh russell cartoon. png | Punch: war reporter, W H Russell, Crimean War

In 1908, he had four plays running simultaneously in London, and Punch published a cartoon of Shakespeare biting his fingernails nervously as he looked at the billboards.

* " Memorials of the Great Exhibition " ( cartoon ) Cartoon series from Punch Magazine

Following General Sir Charles James Napier's 1843 conquest of Sindh, the satirical magazine Punch published a cartoon in which Napier dispatched to his commanders, " Peccavi ," Latin for " I have sinned " ( and a pun of " I have Sindh ").

When examined separately from the book illustrations he did over time, Tenniel ’ s work at Punch alone, expressing decades of editorial viewpoints, often controversial and socially sensitive, was created to ultimately echo the voices of the British public, and is in itself massive.

Tenniel executed 2, 165 separate cartoons for Punch, a liberal and politically active publication that took full advantage of the Victorian time ’ s mood for want of liberal social changes ; thus Tenniel, in his cartoons, represented for years the conscience of the British people.

As expressed by Peter Fraser in Punch & Judy ( 1970 ), " the drama developed as a succession of incidents which the audience could join or leave at any time, and much of the show was impromptu.

The tale of Punch and Judy, as previously with Punchinello and Joan, varies from puppeteer to puppeteer and has changed over time.

While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Another explanation is that Punch ’ s treatment of his shrewish wife, as well as others, is so exaggerated that it is clearly not a representation of good behavior, but more of a commentary on how we all have felt toward someone at one time or another, especially a significant other.

* In the film Time Bandits, a Punch and Judy show is seen when the characters are transported back in time.

After months of financial difficulty and lack of market success, Punch became a staple for British drawing rooms because of its sophisticated humour and absence of offensive material, especially when viewed against the satirical press of the time.

The Punch Bowl, Mayfair was at one time jointly owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie and is known for the number of present-day celebrities that have patronised it.

Sources say that Smith was embittered over the reduction in time allowed for his commentaries and hence resigned after he criticized the revamped World News Tonight format as a " Punch and Judy show.

During his time as a clerk he had been sending his cartoons out to Punch but none had been accepted.

It was at one time owned by the Charrington Brewery, when it was known as The Welsh Harp ; in 1995 the name was abbreviated to just The Harp, before Charrington sold it to Punch Taverns in 1997.

While Bob was a member of the Omens, he met his longtime manager Edward " Punch " Andrews, who at the time was partnered with Dave Leone running the Hideout franchise, which consisted of two clubs where local acts would play and a small-scale record label.

At the same time, Punch Imlach was hired to run the Leafs and soon became head coach and general manager.

( Bywater wrote about this at the time in his then-regular column in Punch.

Sellar had begun to contribute to Punch in 1925 when three humorous short stories of his were published ( he also contributed to other journals around this time ).

In spite of the fact that Horton was 42 years old at the time, and suffering from considerable nearsightedness, former Leafs general manager Punch Imlach signed Horton for the Sabres in 1972.

Their next film, Punch Drunks, was the only short film that was written entirely by the Three Stooges, with Curly as a reluctant boxer who goes ballistic every time he hears " Pop Goes the Weasel.

Harry Furniss aged 26, at about the time he started to work for Punch.

Toronto coach Punch Imlach designated Kurtenbach to the bottom two offensive lines, while earning mostly penalty killing time.

Before joining the Dubliners full time, Luke Kelly had spent some time playing at English folk clubs such as the Jug o ' Punch in Birmingham, run by the folk singer Ian Campbell.

After being led to believe that Agatha died defending a traveling Heterodyne show from a rogue clank, he spent his time resuscitating Agatha's surrogate parents Adam and Lilith Clay ( otherwise known as Punch and Judy, assistants to the Heterodyne Brothers ), and taking out his frustrations upon captured rogue clanks, with a side effect of honing his already impressive sword-skills and reflexes.

His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.

Cogswell thought his readers showed good taste in their selections “ except the young fry, who employ all the hours they are out of school in reading the trashy, as Scott, Cooper, Dickens, Punch, and the Illustrated News .” For the first year the average daily use was about 100 volumes, with a total for the year of about 30, 000.

A fellow worker, Alfred Reed, finding one of the sketches particularly amusing, showed the sketch to his father, German Reed, a friend of the then Punch editor, Mark Lemon in early 1867.

Co-founder Chris Zimmerman showed the list to his wife for her opinion, and she responded that she did not care " as long as it isn't ' Sucker Punch '".