Contributors
Editors of Punch were:
- Mark Lemon (1841–1870)
- Henry Mayhew (1841–1842)
- Charles William Shirley Brooks (1870–1874)
- Tom Taylor (1874–1880)
- Sir Francis Burnand (1880–1906)
- Sir Owen Seaman (1906–1932)
- E.V. Knox (1932–1949)
- Kenneth Bird (1949–1952)
- Malcolm Muggeridge (1953–1957)
- Bernard Hollowood (1958–1968)
- William Davis (1969–1977)
- Alan Coren (1978–1987)
- David Taylor (1988)
- David Thomas (1989–1992)
- Peter McKay (September 1996–1997)
- Paul Spike (1997)
- James Steen (1997–2001)
- Richard Brass (2001–2002)
Cartoonists who worked for the magazine included:
- Acanthus (Frank Hoar)
- Anton (Antonia Yeoman)
- Edward Ardizzone
- C. H. Bennett
- Nicolas Bentley
- Murray Ball
- Quentin Blake
- Russell Brockbank
- Clive Collins
- Richard Doyle (who also illustrated Charles Dickens' Christmas books)
- Rowland Emett
- Noel Ford
- ffolkes (Michael Davies)
- Fougasse (Kenneth Bird)
- Alex Graham (creator of Fred Basset)
- J.B. Handelsman
- Leslie Illingworth
- John Jensen
- Charles Keene
- David Langdon
- Larry (Terrence Parkes)
- John Leech
- George du Maurier
- Phil May
- Brooke McEldowney
- Rod McKie
- Benjamin Minns.
- Nick Newman
- Bernard Partridge
- Matt Percival
- John Phillips
- Pont (Graham Laidler)
- Matt Pritchett
- Arthur Rackham
- Albert Rusling
- Edward Linley Sambourne
- Gerald Scarfe
- Ronald Searle
- E.H. Shepard (who also illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh)
- Robert Sherriffs
- William Sillince
- George Sprod
- John Tenniel (who also illustrated Alice in Wonderland)
- Norman Thelwell
- Bill Tidy (who attempted to buy Punch when it went out of publication)
- Trog (Wally Fawkes)
- E A Worthington
Notable authors who contributed at one time or another include Kingsley Amis, Alex Atkinson, John Betjeman, Willard R. Espy, A.P. Herbert, Thomas Hood, Douglas William Jerrold (1841–1857), James Leavey, George du Maurier, George Melly, John McCrae, A.A. Milne, Anthony Powell, W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Henry Lucy, John Hollingshead, Artemus Ward, Somerset Maugham, P.G. Wodehouse, Keith Waterhouse, Quentin Crisp, Olivia Manning, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Grenfell, E.M. Delafield, Stevie Smith, Virginia Graham, Joan Bakewell, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Peter Dickinson.
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