El Jueves
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El Jueves (Spanish for "Thursday") is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona.
Throughout most of its life, El Jueves's masthead has featured the tagline "La revista que sale los miércoles" ("the magazine that comes out on Wednesdays"). Its mascot is a nameless jester, known simply as "el bufón", who is always fully naked, except for his bell-bearing hat.
History
El Jueves debuted on 27 May 1977, at a time when satirical magazines were highly popular in Spain despite the scant freedom of the press.
Its first editors, cartoonists Tom, Romeu and J. L. Martín, drew inspiration from French magazines such as Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo, which they admired for their extremely irreverent tone. Its first director was journalist José Luis Erviti.[5] Among the contributors in the first issue was Joaquim Aubert "Kim", whose comic strip "Martínez El Facha" (an archetypal Spanish Falange militant and Franco nostalgic) had the longest run in the history of the magazine, appearing without interruption for 1,972 weeks.[6]
Some other of its earliest and most emblematic contributors were Óscar Nebreda, Ventura y Nieto, Gin, Mariel, and Ramón Tosas Ivà, whose most successful comic-strip, starring the street-wise delinquent "Makinavaja", has been adapted into a play, two feature films, and a television series.
The magazine was acquired by publishing group Grupo Zeta in October 1977.[7] In 1982 Grupo Zeta sold El Jueves to its directors J. L. Martín, Óscar Nebreda and Gin, who went on to incorporate Ediciones El Jueves. Throughout the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, their company grew vastly and published several other magazines with a spin-off spirit, such as Puta Mili and Mister K. It also expanded into film and television production.
Following the deaths of several important contributors in the 90s (Gin, Ivá, Nieto and cartoonist
In 2007 RBA Edipresse acquired Ediciones El Jueves.[8]
Profile
A regular issue of El Jueves consists of 70-80 pages, about a quarter of them focused on current social/political affairs and popular culture. The rest are weekly comic strips and a few text-based sections. El Jueves has a
Some enduring sections of El Jueves include "Teníamos más portadas" ("We had more covers"), a collection of alternative cover cartoons summarizing the week's events, and "El gilipollas de la semana" ("Douchebag of the week"), a tongue-in-cheek award to the most stupid public deed or remark seen in the news, often given to politicians.
The 2008 circulation of the magazine was 77,495 copies.[10]
Controversies
2007 seizure
The 18 July 2007 edition of El Jueves was sequestered on 20 July for an alleged violation of laws 490.3 and 491 on
Reporters Without Borders, in their annual report, discussed the sentence as evidence of "slightly curtailed" freedom of the press in Spain.[14] The magazine appealed the sentence to the Constitutional Court of Spain, which refused to hear the appeal on the grounds that the matter lacked "any constitutional significance," thus confirming the sentence.[15] The magazine announced that it would bring the case to the European Court of Human Rights, willing to make clear that neither Torres nor Fontdevila committed any crime.[16]
2014 resignations
On 5 and 6 June 2014, 14 senior cartoonists from El Jueves, including former editors Manel Fontdevila and Albert Monteys, announced their resignation, citing a dispute over another front cover cartoon that publisher RBA had censored. The cartoon, appearing on the same week king Juan Carlos I announced his abdication, showed the king passing on a crown of steaming excrement to his son Prince Felipe. The cartoon was agreed upon in a special editorial meeting on the same Monday of the announcement, but the publisher withdrew it on Tuesday, after it was printed. On Wednesday, the editorial staff were told not to allude to the royal family in the front cover. Monteys said: "That was a shot right in the back of the neck of El Jueves", later adding, "The heart, the essence of El Jueves died on Wednesday".[17] A new online monthly publication, Orgullo y Satisfacción , was launched later that year by the cartoonists that walked out from El Jueves.[18]
2019 Dalas complaint
In December 2019 Spanish
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5.
- ^ a b Abella, Anna (23 September 2015). "El Jueves: 2000 milagros" [El Jueves: 2000 miracles]. El Periódico de Catalunyalocation=Barcelona (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "El Jueves". Humoristán. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ISBN 978-0-313-33770-3.
- ^ Manuel Barrero (2014). "El Jueves, revista de la transición, revista en transición". Tebeosfera. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Constenla, Tereixa (10 April 2015). "Martínez el Facha se despide" [Martínez el Facha bids farewell]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Grupo Zeta. Historia". Periodismo del Siglo XXI (in Spanish). 9 September 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Backed into a corner". M&M Global. 21 November 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2015.[permanent dead link]
- S2CID 143339221.
- ISBN 978-1-135-85430-0. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Carrillo, Marc (2 August 2007). ""Sátira y libertad de expresión"". El Periódico de Catalunya.
- ^ "Spain royal sex cartoonists fined". BBC. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
- ^ Owen, Edward (14 November 2007). "Spanish cartoonist fined for royal dishonour". The Telegraph. Madrid. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Reporters Without Borders. Reporters without borders 2008 Annual Report Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine p. 133
- ^ Recurso de la sentencia de El Jueves
- ^ "El Constitucional rechaza el recurso de 'El Jueves' contra la condena por la portada de los Príncipes". Diario Montañés. 12 January 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Spanish Cartoonists Resign And Journalists Are Suspended After Abdication Week Censorship". The Spain Report. 6 June 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Sale el primer número de 'Orgullo y satisfacción', la revista de los exhumoristas de 'El Jueves'" [First issue of 'Orgullo y satisfacción' comes out--the magazine from former 'El Jueves' cartoonists]. 20 minutos. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Sierra, Irene (2 December 2019). "Dalas Review denuncia a El Jueves y sus mecenas de Patreon ayudan a financiar los costes judiciales". Magnet (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ Magán, Adrián Valiente (2 December 2019). "El youtuber Dalas Review denuncia a la revista El Jueves por acusarle de abuso sexual". Los Replicantes (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ "Dalas Review denuncia a 'El Jueves' por «dejarle de pederasta y machista". PR Noticias (in Spanish). 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Dalas Review denuncia a 'El Jueves' por pintarlo como un "pederasta"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Spain. 3 December 2019. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Rodríguez, Óscar (2 December 2019). "Dalas Review denuncia a 'El Jueves' por sus viñetas acusándolo de abusador sexual". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ Álvarez, Isra (2 December 2019). "Dalas Review denuncia a 'El Jueves' por "dejarle de pederasta, machista, retrógrado y tonto"". 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "La basura mental de Dalasreview". El Jueves (in Spanish). 6 September 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
- ^ Zurita, Isabel M. (23 May 2021). "El Jueves retrata a los streamers y youtubers españoles". Gamereactor España (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 April 2022.
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Orgullo y satisfacción official site (in Spanish)