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Many colleges and universities publish satirical journals, conventionally referred to as "humor magazines."
Among the most famous: The Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, The Yale Record , the nation's oldest college humor magazine (founded in 1872), the Princeton Tiger Magazine which was founded in 1882, Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, founded in 1899, the Stanford Chaparral founded in 1899, and Jester of Columbia , founded 1901.
In 2022, leadership of several college humor magazines pooled together to form the College Satire Guild, a nonprofit with the stated purpose of "fostering creative expression...through satirical journalism." [1] Currently, the membership includes thirteen colleges. [2]
The debut issue of Demon magazine is being dropped to all undergraduate rooms today. Demon is a new humor magazine that features an "inclusive" submissions and printing policy according to the magazine's president, Sebastian Conley '96. "Our policy is if you submit something that's funny, we'll do our best to run it," said Conley, who is also a Crimson editor. "You don't have to dedicate your life to Demon to get published," pointed out the magazine's vice-president Jeremy "Screech" Friedman '98. Conley said yesterday that he started Demon because "Harvard needed a humor magazine." When asked about the Harvard Lampoon, Conley asked "aren't they a Finals Club?"
The event, which will exclusively feature Harvard comics, is organized by Demon Magazine, an on-campus quarterly humor publication.