Mucha (magazine)

Mucha was a Polish satirical magazine published in Warsaw in the periods 1868-1939 and 1946–1952. In 1953 it was merged into another satirical one, Szpilki.[1][2]

Mucha's cover page from 1871

The magazine was founded and edited by bookseller Józef Kaufman, followed by other owners.[1] It included caricatures, jokes and humorous verses and short stories.

Among its many writers, editors, and illustrators were Franciszek Kostrzewski and Bolesław Prus, however the vast majority of contributions were anonymous.[1]

The pre-1939 version was known of its right-wing, nationalistic, xenophobic topics.[1][2] The level of the humor was rather low;[1] examples:[3]

– Doctor, please help, my wife ate too much during the holiday and now it hurts her!
– Indeed?
– No, in the belly!
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– Mr. advocate, sir, did you have happy holidays?
– They were happy for me, indeed: three cases of battery, two of insult, and three dozens of rejected promissory notes!
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– Horror! Yesterday a young girl jumped from a bridge!
– Did she fall in love badly?
– No, in Vistula.

While mucha means "fly" in Polish, actually the magazine was named after a daredevil acrobat Antoni Mucha, whose caricatures were prominent in the first issues.[1]

Scans of Mucha may be found in the searchable online library polona.pl.[3]

References
  1. "Prasa satyryczna i humorystyczna w XIX i XX wieku" (Retrieved 18 January 2017)
  2. "„Mucha”, czyli polskie „Charlie Hebdo” okresu przedwojennego" (Retrieved 18 January 2017)
  3. A scan of Mucha no. 13, 1894
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