''Truth'' magazine was both a weekly

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

and a monthly reader published from 1881 until 1905 in the United States. Its subtitle was "The Brightest of Weeklies".subtitle reference
/ref> The publication was founded in 1881 as a society journal. It was on hiatus from 1884 until 1886, and was revamped starting in 1891 under new editor Blakely Hall, who spiced up the publication by adding more pictures of women to its pages, more social satire, and color. Circulation grew to 50,000 subscribers at that point.Mount, Nicholas James
When Canadian Literature Moved to New York
p. 58 (2005)Sloane, Davie E.E. (ed.
American humor magazines and comic periodicals
p. 289-90 (1987)The Man About Town
''Art in Advertising'', Vol. I., No. 4, p. 118 (December 1891) (report on revamped ''Truth'') Originally a weekly, it transitioned to a monthly publication in 1898, among other numerous changes the publication regularly underwent to its contents and size. It ceased publication in 1905.Gambone, Robert L
Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
p. 20 (University Press of Mississippi, 2009)Adcock, John (29 July 2012)

, ''Yesterday's Papers'' (source is a technically a "blog", but content is well sourced and written by established writer and illustrator)

Contributors

A non-exhaustive list of notable contributors to ''Truth'' includes: *

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

, published several short stories *

George Luks George Benjamin Luks (August 13, 1867 – October 29, 1933) was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting. After travelling and studying in Europe, Luks worked as a newspaper illustrator a ...

, illustrator, over 234 drawings published between 1891 and 1894. *

Rose O'Neill Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published fema ...

, illustrator *

Richard F. Outcault Richard Felton Outcault (; January 14, 1863 – September 25, 1928) was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series ''The Yellow Kid'' and ''Buster Brown'' and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip. Life and career ...

, creator of

The Yellow Kid The Yellow Kid (Mickey Dugan) is an American comic strip character that appeared from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's ''New York World'', and later William Randolph Hearst's ''New York Journal''. Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in t ...

comic strip, and whose character first appeared as a minor character in ''Truth''

References

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