and an increased use of racial caricature, seem to have alienated readers. Under the new editorship readership fell until Grip ceased publication in July 1893. Grip, Inc., sold off assets, such as its printing machines, to repay debts. Bengough revived Grip in 1894 under a new company called Phoenix Publishing with a partner named Bell who had newspaper publishing experience in Belleville. They softened Grips tone, but the content appeared rushed and it lasted only from 4 January to 29 December 1894. Macdonald had died in 1891, and Bengough blamed the publication's ill fortunes on the loss of such a target. Later life (1895–1923) After Grip ceased publication, Bengough worked for the next quarter-century as a cartoonist for a variety of newspapers, including The Globe, The Toronto Evening Telegram, the Montreal Star, Canadian Geographic, the American The Public and The Single Tax Review, The Morning Chronicle and Daily Express in England, and the Sydney Herald in Australia. Bengough continued to devote himself to political causes. He supported the Liberals' successful campaign in the federal election of 1896 with cartoons in the Toronto Globe and with a song he composed titled "Ontario, Ontario". He belonged to numerous political and social clubs. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1880, to which the Governor General appointed him an Associate. He was professor of elocution at Knox College from 1899 to 1901. He served as director of the Toronto Exhibition, auditor for the Canadian Peace and Arbitration Society, member for three years of the board of directors of the Victoria Industrial School, and president of the Toronto Single Tax Association, and took part in the People's Forum social activist group. In 1907, Bengough campaigned to join the Toronto City Council as an alderman for Ward 3. Major newspapers such as the Toronto Star promoted him, and the Toronto Daily World ran a photograph of him on its front page when he won. He won again in 1908 and 1909. He counted future Toronto mayor Horatio Clarence Hocken amongst his reformist allies on the Council and promoted issues such as public ownership of hydroelectric power, but found little support for his ideas. His successes included legislation restricting the issuing of liquor licenses, which found support when he made it an election issue in his 1909 campaign. In March 1909, Bengough took a leave of absence from the Toronto City