Comic-Finance

Le Comic-Finance was a French illustrated satirical and financial weekly newspaper, published in Paris from 1868 to 1937.[1] It was edited from 1868 to 1911 by Ernest Schrameck (1844–1911), who wrote under the psedonym “Sergines”.[2]

Comic-Finance
Caricature of Louis Merton by J B Humbert on the front page of the 7 August 1873 issue
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatFolio
EditorErnest Schrameck (1844–1911)
Founded15 October 1868
Ceased publication25 November 1937
HeadquartersParis
CountryFrance
Circulation1,000 (in 1877)
ISSN2020-7611

Comic-Finance was published weekly, on Thursdays. It included humorous articles, and caricatures of prominent businessmen, as well as serious news articles on financial matters.[3]

Some of the illustrated biographical pieces published in Comic-Finance were republished in bound volumes by its editor-in-chief (Sergines, Silhouettes financières, 4 volumes, Paris, 1872–1874).[3]

In 1877, Comic-Finance's circulation was estimated at 1,000 copies according to a police report.[4]

One of the newspaper's main contributors was Edmond Benjamin. In 1879, he left Comic-Finance to found La Finance pour rire, whose banner and thumbnails were illustrated by another former contributor to Comic-Finance, the designer E Doré.[5]

Publication of Comic-Finance was temporarily interrupted during the Franco-German War of 1870, the Paris Commune in 1871 and the First World War (1914–18). It appeared fortnightly or monthly from 1920 until 1937, when it ceased publication.[6]

Contributors
  • Edmond Benjamin[7][8]
  • Bertall[9]
  • Cham[9]
  • Édouard Dangin[10]
  • Henri Demare[11]
  • E Doré[12]
  • A Farchi[13]
  • Charles Friedlander (alias "Jacques Profit")[14]
  • J B Humbert[9]
  • Louis-Ernest Lesage (alias "Sahib")[15]
  • Claude Guillaumin (alias "Pépin")[3]
  • Pierretti[16]
  • Caricatures published in Comic-Finance
  • Caricature of Eugène Gibiat by Claude Guillaumin ("Pépin") in the 13 February 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Auguste Dreyfus by Claude Guillaumin ("Pépin") in the 10 April 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Edmond Dollfus by "Pierretti" in the 5 June 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Alfred André by "Pierretti" in the 17 July 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Charles Jenty by J B Humbert in the 14 August 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Pierre-Armand Donon, pré sident de la Société des dépôts et comptes courants (President of France's "Deposits and Current Accounts Corporation") by J B Humbert in the 23 October 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Alexandre de Ploeuc, Deputy governor of the Bank of France, in the 30 October 1873 issue
  • Caricature of "Sergines" (Ernest Schrameck, editor of Comic-Finance) by J B Humbert in the 26 December 1873 issue
  • Caricature of Émile-Justin Menier by Henri Demare in the 9 September 1875 issue

References
  1. Comic-finance: journal satirique financier. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. Bibliographie de la France, 2 February 1878, p. 57.
  3. Journal de Seine-et-Marne, 9 March 1874, p. 4.
  4. Bouvier, Jean. Les Rothschild: histoire d'un capitalisme familial, Brussels, Belgium. Éditions Complexe, 1992, p. 253.
  5. La Finance pour rire, 20 July 1912, p. 1.
  6. Catalogue de la BNF.
  7. Comic-Finance, 2 January 1873, p. 2.
  8. La Liberté, 20 September 1888, p. 4.
  9. Grand-Carteret, p. 598.
  10. Le Gaulois, 24 April 1869, p. 2.
  11. Comic-Finance, 30 September 1875, p. 1.
  12. Grand-Carteret, p. 639.
  13. Comic-Finance, 19 June 1873, p. 1.
  14. Levy, Nathalie. La Bourse in 1890, Paris, 1890, p. 121.
  15. Grand-Carteret, p. 670.
  16. Comic-Finance, 5 June 1873, p. 1.

Sources
  • Grand-Carteret, John (1868). Les Mœurs et la caricature en France, Paris: Librairie illustrée, p. 572. (available online at the Internet Archive).
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