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Punch Parodies 1: 1954-1956
Punch (1841-1992) loved parody from birth, but it waited over a century to do a full-scale takeoff of another publication. The main holdup was its mid-Victorian layout, which left targets from The Yellow Book to yellow journalism looking very much like … Continue reading
Posted in Newsstand Parodies, The World: Since 1900
Tagged 1950s, Punch, Radio Times, Reader's Digest, The New Yorker, UK
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Columbia Jester Parodies, 1913-1989
Jester of Columbia, to use its formal title, wasn’t the first publication at Columbia University to include humor, but it was the first to exclude everything else. It debuted on April Fool’s Day, 1901, twenty-four years after the birth of … Continue reading
Parodists and Copycats
When is a parody not a parody? When it’s a straight-faced, money-grubbing imitation, according to the courts. Lawsuits over parodies of copyrighted works are rare and their outcomes unpredictable, but two things any accused parodist better be able to show are (1) that no reasonable person could … Continue reading
Posted in Newsstand Parodies
Tagged Cavalcade (UK), Conservative Digest, Gallery, Playboy, Reader's Digest, Time
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