Big Budget was a British comic which ran weekly from 1897 until 1909.
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Big Budget was first published on June 19th 1897. Initially comprising three eight page sections; The Big Budget (a comic), The Comrade's Budget and The Story Budget, the latter two being text fiction sections. By 1898 the page count was reduced to 20 with all the sections merged into one comic. In 1905 it incorporated a story paper entitled, The Boys' Leader with the comic strips started gradually disappearing until it became a fully fledged story paper. Its title changed to The Comet in 1909 and lasted for just 14 further issues.

Notable contributors include Jack Butler Yeats

Jack Butler Yeats

John "Jack" Butler Yeats was an Irish artist. His early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of...

 ("Signor McCoy the Circus", "John Duff-Pie", "Little Boy Pink" and "Kiroskewero the Detective"), and Ernest Wilkinson ( "Doings of Von Puff, Von Eye, Iko Italiano and Von Sausage the Dog"), C. H. Chapman

C. H. Chapman

Charles Henry Chapman , who signed his work as C. H. Chapman, was a British illustrator and cartoonist best known for his work in boys' story papers such as The Magnet where the character Billy Bunter appeared...

 and Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson , Order of the Rising Sun ,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets...

 under the pseudonym Yorick. It is also notable as the first publication to publish the work of cartoonist David Low, a three strip cartoon in 1902, when he was aged only 11.