El Gran Bvfón

El Gran Bufón (also recorded as El Gran Bvfón) was a Spanish literary magazine published in Madrid between 1912 and 1913. It appeared weekly, with its first issue dated 22 December 1912 and its final issue on 5 May 1913. The publication was founded by Ricardo Marín, who was also among its illustrators. The magazine was a literary and artistic review that gathered a broad circle of contributors from the Spanish cultural scene of the early twentieth century. Its list of collaborating authors included José Francés, Andrés González Blanco, Luis Bonafoux, Álvaro Retana, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Jacinto Benavente, Manuel Abril, Prudencio Iglesias Hermida, Joaquín Dicenta, Federico García Sánchez, Emilio Carrere and Diego San José de la Torre, among others. Illustrators and cartoonists included Ricardo Marín, Rafael de Penagos, José Moya del Pino, Mariano Félez Bentura, Salvador Bartolozzi, Ramón Manchón Herrera, Castelao, Cerezo Vallejo, Barbero, Guilbramson, Rulette, Villem-Gullwal and Exoristo Salmerón. Although its run was brief, El Gran Bufón has been treated in later scholarship as a representative example of Madrid's illustrated literary press in the years just before the avant-garde period. It has been the subject of academic study, including an article by Sandra Domínguez Carreiro in the journal Moenia (2006), and it appears in works on caricature and Spanish humour of the early twentieth century. The magazine is now chiefly accessible through digitised collections such as the Hemeroteca Digital of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

El Gran Bufón was a literary magazine published in Madrid, Spain, between 1912 and 1913. It was founded by Ricardo Marín and issued weekly. Its first number appeared on 22 December 1912, and its last issue was published a few months later, on 5 May 1913. The magazine belonged to the rich tradition of illustrated literary and artistic periodicals that flourished in Madrid in the early twentieth century. It brought together a wide range of collaborators. Among the writers who contributed were José Francés, Andrés González Blanco, Luis Bonafoux, Álvaro Retana, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Jacinto Benavente, Manuel Abril, Prudencio Iglesias Hermida, Joaquín Dicenta, Federico García Sánchez, Emilio Carrere and Diego San José de la Torre, among others. The illustrators and cartoonists included Ricardo Marín, Rafael de Penagos, José Moya del Pino, Mariano Félez Bentura, Salvador Bartolozzi, Ramón Manchón Herrera, Castelao, Cerezo Vallejo, Barbero, Guilbramson, Rulette, Villem-Gullwal and Exoristo Salmerón. Despite its short run, the publication has attracted scholarly attention. Sandra Domínguez Carreiro examined the magazine's representation of the city in an article published in Moenia: Revista lucense de lingüística & literatura (2006). It also features in José Luis Guijarro Alonso's study Cuidado con la pintura: caricaturas del arte en tiempo de vanguardia: Madrid, 1909–1925 (2012) and in Miguel Mihura's El Negociado de incobrables: la vanguardia del humor español en los años veinte (1990). Digitised copies are held by the Hemeroteca Digital of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

• 2012

  The magazine is discussed in José Luis Guijarro Alonso's book on caricature and the avant-garde in Madrid.

• 2006

  Sandra Domínguez Carreiro publishes a study of the magazine in Moenia.

• 1913

  Final issue published on 5 May, ending the magazine's run.

• 1912

  First issue of El Gran Bufón published in Madrid on 22 December.

A Madrid literary and artistic weekly of the early 1910s, distinguished by its broad network of prominent writers and illustrators.

• El Gran Bufón weekly issues

  Weekly literary and illustrated magazine published in Madrid from 1912 to 1913.

1. 1El Gran Bvfón – Wikidatawikidata.org
2. 2El Gran Bufón – Wikipedia (Spanish)es.wikipedia.org
3. 3Hemeroteca Digital – El Gran Bufónhemerotecadigital.bne.es