El Jueves
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| Director | Guille Martínez-Vela |
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| Former editors | José Luis Erviti, J.L. Martín, Óscar Nebreda, Gin, Fer, Albert Monteys, Manel Fontdevila, Mayte Quílez |
| Categories | Satirical |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Josep Ilario |
| First issue | 27 May 1977 |
| Company | Ediciones El Jueves, S.A. |
| Country | Spain |
| Based in | Barcelona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Website | www.eljueves.es |
| ISSN | 1695-4181 |
El Jueves (Spanish for "Thursday") is a Spanish weekly satirical magazine based in Barcelona.
Throughout most of its life, its masthead has been featuring 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.
El Jueves debuted in 27 May 1977, at a time when satirical magazines were highly popular in Spain despite the scant freedom of the press. Its founder, Josep Ilario, creator of other humor magazines such as Barrabás and Por favor, wished El Jueves to be an adult version of Bruguera's model of children's magazines, made of character-focused comic strips lampooning stereotypes of contemporary Spanish society. 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. 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.
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.
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