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Post by bryanstone on Nov 13, 2007 12:17:54 GMT -5
Their cartoon, on the front page of the weekly satirical magazine El Jueves in July, depicted Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia having sex. The edition was pulled from newsstands across the country by police. A judge said that El Jueves' Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontdevila "had vilified the crown in the most gratuitous and unnecessary way". Torres had drawn the cartoon and Fontdevila, the paper's cartoons editor, wrote the caption. "Do you realise," says the crown prince in the cartoon, "if you get pregnant this will be the closest thing I've done to work in my whole life." That referred to an announcement by the government that it would pay Spanish couples for each new baby they had. Several months before, in April, the royal couple had their second baby, Sofia. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7092866.stmAll that aside I'm blown away that there is somewhere where cartoonists make the cover of magazines!
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Post by danarcher on Apr 4, 2008 12:51:02 GMT -5
El Jueves is like the Spanish equivalent of Mad Magazine: translated, it means "Thursday" with the subtitle "the magazine that comes out every Wednesday") I've actually got a copy of the banned issue from last summer and it is pretty awesome - there's a "gentlemen's agreement" in the UK that no one defame the Royal Family in the same way. I blame politesse. If you want to check out the jueves site (you'll need to break out your spanish dictionaries) it's highly recommended: www.eljueves.es
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