Peeps," Mr Reed is a wholly
irresponsible humorist and parodist. One finds keen satire, however,
in those "Ready-made Coats of Arms," in which he turned at once his
heraldic lore and his insight into character to excellent account. In
his more serious picture in which he has drawn a parallel between the
_tricoteuses_ awaiting with grim enjoyment the fall of the guillotine
and those modern English gentlewomen who flock to the Old Bailey as to
the play, we have the true Hogarthian touch. Mr Gunning King, Mr F.H.
Townshend, Mr C.E. Brock, Mr Tom Browne, are among the younger
humorists who have advanced to the front rank. Though there have been
some notable competitors with _Punch_, there has never been a really
"good second." In Matt Morgan the _Tomahawk_ (1865-1867) could boast
an original cartoonist after Tenniel's style, but without Tenniel's
power and humour. Morgan's _Tomahawk_ cartoons gained in effect from
an ingenious method of printing in two colours. In Fred Barnard, W.G.
Baxter, and Mr J.F. Sullivan, _Judy_ (founded in 1867) possessed a
trio of pictorial humorists of the first rank, and in W. Bowcher a
political cartoonist thoroughly to the taste of those hot and strong
Conservatives to whom _Punch's_ faint Whiggery was but Radicalism in
disguise. His successor, Mr William Parkinson, was not less loyal to
Tory ideas, though more urbane in his methods. _Fun_ has had
cartoonists of high merit in Mr Gordon Thomson and in Mr John Proctor,
who worked also for _Moonshine_ (founded in 1879, now extinct).
_Moonshine_ afterwards enlisted the services of Alfred Bryan, to whose
clever pencil the Christmas number of the _World_ was indebted for
many years. _Ally Sloper_, founded in 1884, is notable only as the
widely circulated medium for W.G. Baxter's wild humours, kept up in
the same spirit by Mr W.F. Thomas, his successor. _Pick-me-up_ could
once count a staff which rivalled at least the social side of _Punch_;
Mr Raven-Hill, Phil May, Mr Maurice Greiffenhagen and Mr Dudley Hardy
all contributed in their time to its sprightly pages, while Mr S.H.
Sime made it the vehicle for his "squint-brained" imaginings. The
_Will o' the Wisp_, the _Butterfly_ and the _Unicorn_, kindred
ventures, though on different lines, all met with an early death.
_Lika Joko_, founded in 1894 by Mr Harry Furniss, who in that year
abandoned _Punch_, and afterwards _Fair Game_, wer