Comic-Finance

{{Short description|French weekly newspaper}}

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| caption = Caricature of Louis Merton by J B Humbert on the front page of the 7 August 1873 issue

| type = Weekly newspaper

| format = Folio

| owners =

| editor = Ernest Schrameck (1844–1911)

| foundation = 15 October 1868

| ceased publication = 25 November 1937

| headquarters = Paris

| circulation = 1,000 (in 1877)

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| ISSN = 2020-7611

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| publishing_country = France

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Le Comic-Finance was a French illustrated satirical and financial weekly newspaper, published in Paris, France from 1868 to 1937.{{Cite book |title=Comic-finance: journal satirique financier |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5882218 |access-date=28 December 2020 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was edited from 1868 to 1911 by Ernest Schrameck (1844–1911), who wrote under the pseudonym "Sergines".Bibliographie de la France, 2 February 1878, p. 57.

Comic-Finance was published weekly, on Thursdays. It included humorous articles, and caricatures of prominent businessmen, as well as serious news articles on financial matters.

Some of the illustrated biographical pieces published in Comic-Finance were republished in bound volumes by its editor-in-chief (Sergines, Silhouettes financières, 4 volumes, Paris, 1872–1874).Journal de Seine-et-Marne, 9 March 1874, p. 4.

In 1877, Comic-Finance's circulation was estimated at 1,000 copies according to a police report.Bouvier, Jean. Les Rothschild: histoire d'un capitalisme familial, Brussels, Belgium. Éditions Complexe, 1992, p. 253.

One of the newspaper's main contributors was Edmond Benjamin. In 1879, he left Comic-Finance to found La Finance pour rire, whose banner and thumbnails were illustrated by another former contributor to Comic-Finance, the designer E Doré.La Finance pour rire, 20 July 1912, p. 1.

Publication of Comic-Finance was temporarily interrupted during the Franco-German War of 1870, the Paris Commune in 1871 and the First World War (1914–18). It appeared fortnightly or monthly from 1920 until 1937, when it ceased publication.Catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.