The Wasp (magazine)

This article is about the nineteenth-century magazine. For the nineteenth-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois, see The Wasp (newspaper).

Railroad monopoly cartoon from The Wasp, 1882

The Wasp, also known as The Illustrated Wasp, The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp, The Wasp News-Letter and the San Francisco News- Letter Wasp, was an American weekly satirical magazine based in San Francisco. Founded in 1876, it closed in 1941, the name of the magazine having been changed several times in the interim.