The Wasp (magazine)

[2] The magazine was somewhat unusual at the time, owing to the Korbels' expertise in mass-producing color lithographs in print, a process they had come to master in their first business, the manufacture of labeled cigar boxes.

The magazine was sold in secret in 1881 to Charles Webb Howard, who hired Edward C. Macfarlane as publisher.

Ambrose Bierce was hired as editor soon afterward, serving in that role from January 1, 1881, until September 11, 1885.

During Bierce's editorial tenure, The Wasp published his column "Prattle" and several serialized installments of his satirical definitions later collected as The Devil's Dictionary.

Political cartoons from The Wasp are often cited in Asian-American anti-defamation materials as an example of early stereotyping of Chinese immigrants.