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The founding of the two leading American comic weeklies, Puck (1876) and later Judge (1881) were the renaissance of cartoons and political caricatures in this country. Young Viennese artist and actor Joseph Keppler founded and was chief developer of Puck: the first great American success in comic journalism. The name "Puck" was taken from the elfin character in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" whose famous quote was (appropriately enough) "What fools these mortals be!" |