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Comic-Finance

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Comic-Finance
Caricature of Louis Merton by J B Humbert on the front page of the 7 August 1873 issue
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatFolio
EditorErnest Schrameck (1844–1911)
Founded15 October 1868
Ceased publication25 November 1937
HeadquartersParis
CountryFrance
Circulation1,000 (in 1877)
ISSN2020-7611

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]

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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References

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  1. ^ Comic-finance: journal satirique financier. Retrieved 28 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Bibliographie de la France, 2 February 1878, p. 57.
  3. ^ a b c Journal de Seine-et-Marne, 9 March 1874, p. 4.
  4. ^ Bouvier, Jean. Les Rothschild: histoire d'un capitalisme familial, Brussels, Belgium. Éditions Complexe, 1992, p. 253.
  5. ^ La Finance pour rire, 20 July 1912, p. 1.
  6. ^ Catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  7. ^ Comic-Finance, 2 January 1873, p. 2.
  8. ^ La Liberté, 20 September 1888, p. 4.
  9. ^ a b c Grand-Carteret, p. 598.
  10. ^ Le Gaulois, 24 April 1869, p. 2.
  11. ^ Comic-Finance, 30 September 1875, p. 1.
  12. ^ Grand-Carteret, p. 639.
  13. ^ Comic-Finance, 19 June 1873, p. 1.
  14. ^ Levy, Nathalie. La Bourse in 1890, Paris, 1890, p. 121.
  15. ^ Grand-Carteret, p. 670.
  16. ^ Comic-Finance, 5 June 1873, p. 1.

Sources

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  • Grand-Carteret, John (1868). Les Mœurs et la caricature en France, Paris: Librairie illustrée, p. 572 (available online at the Internet Archive).
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