Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba / UNEAC (author/illustrator/cover designer: Nuez (René de la Nuez), editor: Pedro de Oraá, designer: Héctor Villaverde), "Allí fumé: dibujos satíricos de Nuez," March 1987. Offset print, book.

Nuez (René de la Nuez) - "Allí fumé" (1987)

A brilliant satirical book by Cuba's master caricaturist Nuez (René de la Nuez), published by Ediciones Unión, the publishing house of UNEAC (Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba). The vibrant orange cover features one of Nuez's signature drawings: a bureaucrat wrapped in a serpent, sitting at a desk with one finger pointing upward—a perfect visual metaphor for bureaucratic entanglement.

The title "Allí fumé" is a clever wordplay that evokes both smoking and the suffocating atmosphere of bureaucracy. This collection of satirical drawings lampoons the absurdities of bureaucratic culture—the paper-pushers, the endless procedures, the pompous officials—with Nuez's characteristic sharp wit and clean line work. The prologue by Evora Tamayo discusses how bureaucracy has become a monster with "a hundred feet and heads" that even the revolution cannot escape.

Published during the "Year 29 of the Revolution" and printed at the Combinado Poligráfico "Alfredo López" of the Ministry of Culture, this book represents Nuez at the height of his powers as Cuba's preeminent political cartoonist, using humor as a prophylactic measure against bureaucratic excess.

A masterpiece of Cuban satirical art addressing the universal frustrations of bureaucracy through revolutionary humor.