Fray Mocho (magazine)

Fray Mocho
Cover of Fray Mocho #1 (May 1912).
Art by José María Cao
CategoriesPolitical satire
FrequencyWeekly
FormatMagazine
First issueMay 1912
Final issue1929; 95 years ago (1929)
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Fray Mocho was an Argentine weekly magazine that published general interest topics. Its first number was published on May 3, 1912, with historian and journalist Carlos Correa Luna being its first director. Fray Mocho's staff included former collaborators of Caras y Caretas who had left the magazine in disagreement with its editorial line.[1]

The magazine was named after José Sixto Álvarez (1858–1903), writer and journalist who was notable for his humorous texts, apart from having been the founder of Caras y Caretas.[1] Fray Mocho published 196 issues until its closure in 1929.[1]

  1. ^ a b c El semanario Fray Mocho y lo popular Archived 2018-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, by Patricia Piñeiro y Gustavo Sotolano, originally published on Historia de Revistas Argentinas, Book IV (AAER)