Melbourne Punch

Melbourne Punch (from 1900, simply titled Punch) (2 August 1855 – December 1925) was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett, modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier. A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch, was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.

Ray and Sinnett published the magazine 1855–1883, followed by Alex McKinley 1883.

Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887.

Contributing artists included J C Bancks, Luther Bradley, O R Campbell, George Dancey, Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson, S T Gill, Alex Gurney, Hal Gye, Percy Leason, Emile Mercier, Alex Sass, Montague Scott, Alf Vincent and Cecil "Unk" White.

Editors included Frederick Sinnett 1855–1857, James Smith 1857–1863, Charles Bright 1863–1866, William Jardine Smith, John Bede Dalley 1924.

Writers included Butler Cole Aspinall, Charles Gavan Duffy, R.H. Horne, James Smith, Thomas Carrington and Nicholas Chevalier.

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