Puck
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Puck was the first successful humorous weekly periodical in the United States. Founded by Austria-born American caricaturist Joseph Keppler, it began as a German-language publication in 1870, which was short-lived. Keppler later founded a second German-language Puck in New York City in 1877, which proved so successful that an English-language version was launched the same year. The English edition continued until 1918. Keppler was instrumental in the magazine's success, initially drawing all its cartoons and maintaining a strong influence even as other artists contributed. The periodical was known for its cartoons, with one notable example being Keppler's "Forbidding the Banns" during the 1880 presidential campaign.1
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Henry Cuyler Bunner…editor and later editor of Puck until his death. He developed Puck from a new, struggling comic weekly into a powerful social and political organ. Bunner’s fiction, particularly “Made in France”; French Tales Retold with a United States Twist (1893), reflects the influence of Guy de Maupassant and other French…
Read More…editor and later editor of Puck until his death. He developed Puck from a new, struggling comic weekly into a powerful social and political organ. Bunner’s fiction, particularly “Made in France”; French Tales Retold with a United States Twist (1893), reflects the influence of Guy de Maupassant and other French…
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…1880, he was hired by Puck, a pro-Democratic comic weekly, in 1881. Although he was a Republican, he contributed in part to the defeat of James G. Blaine by Grover Cleveland in the election of 1884 through a biting “tattooed man” series published in Puck, in which Blaine was shown…
Read More…1880, he was hired by Puck, a pro-Democratic comic weekly, in 1881. Although he was a Republican, he contributed in part to the defeat of James G. Blaine by Grover Cleveland in the election of 1884 through a biting “tattooed man” series published in Puck, in which Blaine was shown…
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Joseph Keppler…American caricaturist and founder of Puck, the first successful humorous weekly in the United States.
Read More…American caricaturist and founder of Puck, the first successful humorous weekly in the United States.
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