Big Budget
Big Budget was a British comic which ran weekly from 1897 until 1909.
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Big Budget was first published on June 19, 1897.[1] Initially comprising three eight page sections; The Big Budget (a comic), The Comrade's Budget and The Story Budget, the latter two being text fiction sections.[1] By 1898 the page count was reduced to 20 with all the sections merged into one comic. In 1905 it incorporated a story paper entitled, The Boys' Leader with the comic strips started gradually disappearing until it became a fully fledged story paper. Its title changed to The Comet in 1909 and lasted for just 14 further issues.[1]
Notable contributors include Jack Butler Yeats ("Signor McCoy the Circus", "John Duff-Pie", "Little Boy Pink" and "Kiroskewero the Detective"),[2] and Ernest Wilkinson ( "Doings of Von Puff, Von Eye, Iko Italiano and Von Sausage the Dog"),[3] C. H. Chapman[4] and Ralph Hodgson under the pseudonym Yorick.[5] It is also notable as the first publication to publish the work of cartoonist David Low, a three strip cartoon in 1902, when he was aged only 11.[6]
References
- ^ a b c "British Comics History - Comics UK". British Comics History. Retrieved 2009-07-25.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Jack Yeats". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ "Ernest Wilkinson". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ "C. H. Chapman". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ "Poet's star is ready to rise once more". Northern Echo. Retrieved 2009-07-25. [dead link]
- ^ Seymour-Ure, Colin. David Low. Secker & Warburg. p. 1. ISBN 0-436-44755-X.
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