The Goblin (magazine)

The Goblin
The Cover of the June 1923 issue of The Goblin, a Canadian Humorous Magazine.
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
CityToronto
Publication TypeMonthly (Every Month)
OCLCOCLC 231859789

The Goblin was a Canadian humorous magazine based in Toronto, Ontario. It was self-published from February of 1921 to May of 1929,[1] and was originally started by students of the University of Toronto,[2] although had no connection with University anymore by 1928.[3]

It primarily contained satire, caricature, and literary criticism, as well as various art from individuals such as Lou Skuce, Jimmy Frise, Lawson Wood, Jack Maclaren, Russ Fisher, Walter Schmidt, and Syd Law,[4] with other contributions by James Alexander Cowan (the first editor-in-chief) and Stephen Leacock.[3]

The magazines initial price was 20 cents, but in 1925 its price would increase to 25 cents for the remainder of its publication.[5] The magazine ran until volume 9, issue 9, after which it was replaced with The New Goblin.[6]

  1. ^ "University of Toronto Library Search - The Goblin". librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  2. ^ Desbarats, Peter; Aislin (1979). The hecklers: a history of Canadian political cartooning and a cartoonists' history of Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-2686-7.
  3. ^ a b Chopra, Vishnu R. K. "Stephen Leacock : an edition of selected letters". escholarship.mcgill.ca. Louis (Supervisor) Dudek. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  4. ^ "Goblin Magazine". Moss and Fog. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  5. ^ "Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine; All Volumes of The Goblin". archive.org. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
  6. ^ Mappin, John (1988). The Goblin : A Brief History of Canada's Humour Magazine of the 1920s. Montreal: Porcupine's Quill. p. 32.