Comic Cuts was a British comic book. It was created by the reporter, Alfred Harmsworth through his company Amalgamated Press (AP). It was published from 1890 to 1953, lasting 3006 issues, and in its early days inspired other publishers to produce rival comics. Its first issue was an assortment of reprints from American publications. During its lifetime, the comic merged with many others including Golden Penny (1928), Jolly Comic (1939) and Larks (1940). Comic Cuts finally disappeared in September 1953 when it was merged with Knockout. Comic Cuts held the record for the most issues of a British weekly comic for 46 years, until The Dandy overtook it in 1999.
The comic is mentioned in G. K. Chesterton's 1905 book Heretics, and in a line of Cyril Tawney's song Chicken on a Raft - "He's looking at me Comic Cuts again". It was also mentioned in Clive Dunn's 1971 hit record "Grandad" - "Comic Cuts, all different things."
Famous quotes containing the words comic and/or cuts:
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)
“Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?”
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