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Melbourne Punch (from 1900, simply titled Punch) was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett, and published from August 1855 to December 1925. The magazine was modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier.Lindesay, Vane The Inked-In Image Heinemann Melbourne 1970 A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch, was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.
Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886 – c. 1891.
Contributing artists included Jimmy Bancks, Luther Bradley, Samuel Calvert, O. R. Campbell, George Dancey, Tom Carrington, Tom Durkin, Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson, S. T. Gill, Alex Gurney, Hal Gye, Percy Leason, Emile Mercier, Alex Sass, Montague Scott, Alf Vincent, Samuel Garnet Wells, and Unk White.McCullough, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968
Editors included Frederick Sinnett (1855–1857), James Smith (1857–1863), Charles Bright (1863–1866), William Jardine Smith (1866-1869), Tom Carrington (intermittently) and John Bede Dalley (1924).
Writers included Butler Cole Aspinall, Charles Gavan Duffy, R. H. Horne, James Smith, Thomas Carrington and Nicholas Chevalier.
It was involved in the creation of The Ashes cricket trophy in 1883.
It incorporated the Melbourne Bulletin in 1886, after which it became more involved with "society" news.
A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Ned Kelly in a satirical context.
An annual, variously titled Punch Almanac, Melbourne Punch Almanack, Melbourne Punch's Office Almanack and similar, was published for a time. Melbourne punch's almanack
The publication was Folio size and initially contained 8 pages, increasing to 12 pages in 1878 and was 18 pages by 1891.Lurline Stuart (1979), Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals; an annotated bibliography, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, p.109. It sold for sixpence.
The title was acquired by The Melbourne Herald in 1924 and given a new life as a national publication of art and humor, whose first issue appeared on 18 December 1924. John B. Dalley was editor, C. R. Bradish associate editor, and staff included Norman Campbell, Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae, and later dubbed "The New Punch".
It amalgamated with Table Talk in 1926.
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