Illustrated Chips was a British comic magazine published between 26 July 1890 and 12 September 1953. Its publisher was the Amalgamated Press, run by Alfred Harmsworth. After a brief initial run of six issues, Illustrated Chips was relaunched and ran for 2,997 issues. In 1953 it merged with Film Fun. From May 1896 to the last issue the cover page held a comic strip featuring the tramps (initially named "Weary Waddles and Tired Timmy"). The Weary Willie and Tired Tim characters helped inspire Charlie Chaplin to create his Little Tramp character.