After the success in the Cultural Centre La Nau, the exhibition ‘Hermano Lobo (1972-1976): un huevo duro para el Caudillo’ transfers to the valencian town Requena through the UVsocietat programme of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society of the University of Valencia.

The opening took place on Thursday 1 June and was attended by Mª Dolores Pitarch, delegate of the principal for Uvsocietat, and the professors Antonio Laguna Platero and Francesc-Andreu Martínez Gallego, curators of the exhibition.

‘Hermano Lobo (1972-1976): un huevo duro para el Caudillo’ is a tribute to some comedians who –through drawing, caricature and drafting– opened in the late Franco era spaces of freedom for the later Spanish transition to democracy.

The magazine was launched in the summer of 1972 under the direction of José Ángel Ezcurra and the cartoonist Chumy Chúmez, with the aim of adding to the spectrum of periodicals of that time a political humour that breaks the limits of freedom of expression imposed by Franco’s regime.

The weekly publication ended in 1976. However, it was enough time for the magazine to count with cartoonists of the standing of El Perich, El Roto, Monolo Summers or Quino; as well as writers such as Manuel Vicent, Francisco Umbral, Rosa Montero or Jaime Millás.

Magazines of great relevance, such as Hermano Lobo were fundamental tools for a political change, in which the dictatorship was being abolished and the door to democracy was being opened. Nevertheless, many of them died in the process, without being able to see what they had longed for.

The exhibition includes a catalogue-book with the same name as the exhibition in which specialists in journalistic humour during the Transition take part. It is coordinated by the curators. It should be also pointed out that the catalogue-book comes with a first chapter by Manuel Vicent and concludes with another one by Jaime Millás.

The exhibition ‘Hermano Lobo (1972-1976): un huevo duro para el Caudillo’ coincides with the 38th Requena Book Fair and will be held in the "Antiguo Mercado" exhibition hall from Thursday 1 June until Sunday 30 July.