Editora Abril de la UJC (cover artist/designer: TOMY (Tomás Rodríguez Zayas), editor: Jorge Oliver Medina), "Dedete: Suplemento Humorístico," July 1985. Offset print, magazine/booklet

"Dedete" - Cuban Youth Humor Magazine (1985)

A delightful humor supplement published by Editora Abril, the publishing house of the UJC (Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas - Union of Young Communists). The charming cover by cartoonist TOMY (Tomás Rodríguez Zayas) features a cheerful scientist in their laboratory examining baby chick drawings hung on a clothesline, with a microscope and scientific equipment on the table—a whimsical illustration that captures the playful spirit of scientific inquiry.

Published during the "Año del III Congreso" (Year of the Third Congress) and printed at the Combinado Poligráfico Evelio Rodríguez Curbelo, this humor supplement includes work by multiple Cuban cartoonists including Alberto Morales Ajubel, Alberto Merique Ardión, Carlos Villar Alemán, Miguel Díaz Martínez, Manuel Hernández Valdés, René García Cañizares, and Wilfredo Torres Albuerne.

The dedication page reveals the magazine's populist spirit, dedicating the work to gastronomic workers, taxi drivers, Cuban television, film critics, "machistas, handsome men and ugly ones," bureaucracy, socialism, and various cultural figures. This eclectic mix reflects the magazine's satirical mission to find humor in all aspects of Cuban revolutionary life.