Le Comic-Finance was a French illustrated satirical and financial weekly newspaper, published in Paris, France from 1868 to 1937.[1] It was edited from 1868 to 1911 by Ernest Schrameck (1844–1911), who wrote under the pseudonym "Sergines".[2]
.jpeg) Caricature of Louis Merton by J B Humbert on the front page of the 7 August 1873 issue | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Folio |
| Editor | Ernest Schrameck (1844–1911) |
| Founded | 15 October 1868 |
| Ceased publication | 25 November 1937 |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Circulation | 1,000 (in 1877) |
| ISSN | 2020-7611 |
Comic-Finance was published weekly, on Thursdays. It included humorous articles, and caricatures of prominent businessmen, as well as serious news articles on financial matters.[3]
Some of the illustrated biographical pieces published in Comic-Finance were republished in bound volumes by its editor-in-chief (Sergines, Silhouettes financières, 4 volumes, Paris, 1872–1874).[3]
In 1877, Comic-Finance's circulation was estimated at 1,000 copies according to a police report.[4]
One of the newspaper's main contributors was Edmond Benjamin. In 1879, he left Comic-Finance to found La Finance pour rire, whose banner and thumbnails were illustrated by another former contributor to Comic-Finance, the designer E Doré.[5]
Publication of Comic-Finance was temporarily interrupted during the Franco-German War of 1870, the Paris Commune in 1871 and the First World War (1914–18). It appeared fortnightly or monthly from 1920 until 1937, when it ceased publication.[6]
Contributors
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edit- Caricatures published in Comic-Finance
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Caricature of Eugène Gibiat by Claude Guillaumin ("Pépin") in the 13 February 1873 issue -
Caricature of Auguste Dreyfus by Claude Guillaumin ("Pépin") in the 10 April 1873 issue -
Caricature of Edmond Dollfus by "Pierretti" in the 5 June 1873 issue -
Caricature of Alfred André by "Pierretti" in the 17 July 1873 issue -
Caricature of Charles Jenty by J B Humbert in the 14 August 1873 issue -
Caricature of Armand Donon, President of the Société des Dépôts et Comptes Courants, by J B Humbert in the 23 October 1873 issue -
Caricature of Alexandre de Ploeuc, Deputy governor of the Bank of France, in the 30 October 1873 issue -
Caricature of "Sergines" (Ernest Schrameck, editor of Comic-Finance) by J B Humbert in the 26 December 1873 issue -
Caricature of Émile-Justin Menier by Henri Demare in the 9 September 1875 issue
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References
edit- ^ Comic-finance: journal satirique financier. Retrieved 28 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Bibliographie de la France, 2 February 1878, p. 57.
- ^ a b c Journal de Seine-et-Marne, 9 March 1874, p. 4.
- ^ Bouvier, Jean. Les Rothschild: histoire d'un capitalisme familial, Brussels, Belgium. Éditions Complexe, 1992, p. 253.
- ^ La Finance pour rire, 20 July 1912, p. 1.
- ^ Catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- ^ Comic-Finance, 2 January 1873, p. 2.
- ^ La Liberté, 20 September 1888, p. 4.
- ^ a b c Grand-Carteret, p. 598.
- ^ Le Gaulois, 24 April 1869, p. 2.
- ^ Comic-Finance, 30 September 1875, p. 1.
- ^ Grand-Carteret, p. 639.
- ^ Comic-Finance, 19 June 1873, p. 1.
- ^ Levy, Nathalie. La Bourse in 1890, Paris, 1890, p. 121.
- ^ Grand-Carteret, p. 670.
- ^ Comic-Finance, 5 June 1873, p. 1.
Sources
edit- Grand-Carteret, John (1868). Les Mœurs et la caricature en France, Paris: Librairie illustrée, p. 572 (available online at the Internet Archive).
External links
edit- 1873 issues of Comic-Finance held at Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania