El Jueves
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El Jueves (Spanish for "The Thursday") is a Spanish satirical and political humour weekly magazine. Its complete title is "El Jueves, la revista que sale los Miércoles" ("The Thursday, the magazine that comes out Wednesdays"). An issue currently (2006) costs 2,10 € in mainland Spain (including Balearic Islands and 2,25 € in the Canary Islands.
It was born in 1977 and has been out every week since. It currently has between 72 and 80 pages, with about 20 pages about current political, economical or social affairs, always in humorous, irreverent tone and in comic format. The rest are weekly strips. An extra is edited every three months, with between 104 and 120 pages about a particular issue: monarchy, religion, videogames or some piece of news related to those or other themes. The magazine has edited more than 1500 numbers. Its symbol is the jester that appears since the beginning in the front page.
Some of the recurring sections of El Jueves are:
- "Te lo juro News", a four-page newspaper parody with comic strips, brief humorous texts and photomontages about current national and international affairs.
- "Recortes de la prensa seria", a section with News of the Weird-like headlines or curiosities published in ordinary press.
- "El gilipollas de la semana", about the most ridiculous person of the week according to the El Jueves contributors.
- "En familia", letters to the editor.
- A poster, generally by Vizcarra.
- The editorial, about the current affairs theme that is developed in the first pages of the magazine.
With the issue about United States (number 1428), another magazine was published, Mister K, oriented to children and teeneagers.
In 2003 El Jueves Campus was first published, a supplement to 20 minutos with several comic strips, focused on the student world. It's distributed for free every month's second thursday in University areas.
Some equivalents to El Jueves are MAD in the US, or Charlie Hebdo in France.
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