'PICK OF ''PUNCH'''

Humor & Entertainment

Alan Coren

Humor

Hutchinson

"Punch", or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humor and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992. It was revived in 1996, but closed again in 2002. The term "cartoon" to refer to comic drawings was first used in Punch in 1843, when the Houses of Parliament were to be decorated with murals, and "cartoons" for the mural were displayed for the public; the term "cartoon" then meant a finished preliminary sketch on a large piece of cardboard, or cartone in Italian. "Punch" humorously appropriated the term to refer to its political cartoons, and the popularity of the Punch cartoons led to the term's widespread use. Alan Coren was the magazine's editor from 1978 - 1987. Coren (1938 - 2007) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panelist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Punch material was collected in book formats from the late nineteenth century, which included Pick of the Punch annuals with cartoons and text features. This one is for the year 1983.

The Pick of Punch 1983 by Alan Coren (1983-05-03)

'''PUNCH'' BOOK OF SHORT STORIES: BK. 1'

Literature & Fiction

ALEXANDER FRATER

Paul, Theroux

Jack Trevor Story

Richard Coren

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Arthur joins forces with Sherlock Holmes to solve a shipboard robbery.

Arthur and the Great Detective (Puffin Books)

Puffin Books

Arthur Versus the Rest (Puffin Books)

Children's Books

Penguin

<p>It takes a ten-year-old bard to reform Grizzly Wilkinson, the meanest prospector in the Klondike gold fields.</p>

Klondike Arthur

Little, Brown Young Readers

<p>Arthur joins forces with Sherlock Holmes to solve a shipboard robbery.</p>

Arthur and the Great Detective

Little. Brown and Company

Golfing for Cats (Coronet Books)

Coronet

The owners of the Yellow T Seafood Restaurant engage the services of a ten-year-old sleuth to track down some thieves.

The Lone Arthur (The Arthur Books)

Robson Books Ltd.

Arthur the Kid (Arthur Books)

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