Melbourne Punch

The magazine was modelled closely on Punch of London which was founded fifteen years earlier.

[2][3] A similar magazine, Adelaide Punch, was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884.

[3] Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886[4] – c. 1891.

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

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