Funny Folks was a British periodical published between 1874 and 1894. It was published in London by Scottish newspaper proprietor James Henderson . It has been called "the first English 'comic' paper", and "the model for all later British comics".
6-596: The first issue, on 12 December 1874, was produced as a supplement to the special Christmas edition of Henderson's weekly magazine The Weekly Budget . Its popularity led to its subsequent publication as a free-standing periodical, priced at 1 d. per copy. It was subtitled A Weekly Budget of Funny Pictures, Funny Notes, Funny Jokes, Funny Stories . The newspaper-format journal was innovative in combining entertaining stories and puzzles with large cartoons. These were often satirical in tone, with some by John Proctor , known as Puck, and some from German and French sources. It
12-532: A wide range of other periodicals, including the spin-off prototype children's journals and comics Young Folks and Funny Folks . His publishing company expanded into also producing books and postcards. Henderson retired in 1900 and died in 1906. In 1910, his sons sold the rights to the Weekly Budget to the American publisher Randolph Hearst . This British magazine or academic journal–related article
18-961: The Manchester Guardian . There, he was sent into the Lancashire towns to find out whether there was a demand for the daily newspaper to be circulated more widely. He found that there was little demand for a daily newspaper, but that "what was wanted was a weekly paper which, whilst giving a certain amount of news, should contain a considerable proportion of light amusing reading." Accordingly, Henderson founded his own journal, The North British Weekly Budget , in January 1861. The newspaper, priced at 1 d. , contained both news items and fiction, and sold well. Its success led Henderson to move from Manchester to Red Lion Court in Fleet Street in London in 1862, and by
24-624: The article's talk page . The Weekly Budget The Weekly Budget , originally the North British Weekly Budget , was a journal published in Britain between 1861 and 1910. It combined news with commentary, fictional stories, cartoons and puzzles. It was founded by James Henderson and published by his company, in later years James Henderson & Sons Ltd. Henderson had set up newspapers in Scotland before coming south to work on
30-466: The end of the following year the Weekly Budget had a claimed circulation of 150,000. By 1865 it was claimed that the Budget had the largest provincial circulation of any British newspaper. As well as news and commentary "from the moderate Liberal point of view", large parts of the paper were devoted to serial novels, and to answering readers' questions. The newspaper's success led to Henderson publishing
36-503: Was aimed at an adult lower middle-class audience, rather than at children, and benefitted from innovations in the use of cheap paper and photo-zincography printing. One of the contributors to the journal was Alfred Harmsworth , who launched his own Comic Cuts a few years later. This article relating to a British magazine connected with culture is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
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