Bystander (magazine)

Bystander, a British weekly tabloid magazine, featured reviews, topical sketches, and short stories. Published from Fleet Street, it was established in 1903 by George Holt Thomas.[1] Its first editor, William Comyns Beaumont, later edited from 1928-1932.

It was notably popular during World War I for its publication of the "Old Bill" cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather. The magazine also employed many notable artists including H. M. Bateman, W. Heath Robinson, Howard Elcock, Helen McKie, Will Owen, Edmund Blampied and L. R. Brightwell.

It also published some of the earliest stories of Daphne du Maurier (Beaumont's niece), as well as short stories by Saki, including "Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped."[2]

The magazine ran until 1940, when it merged with the Tatler (titled Tatler & Bystander until 1968).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Vincent Orange, ‘Thomas, George Holt (1870–1929)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ↑ The Bystander, 7 December 1910.
  3. ↑ Bystander, Galactic Central Magazine Data File