[4] Its first editors, cartoonists Tom, Romeu and J. L. Martín, drew inspiration from French magazines such as Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo, which they admired for their extremely irreverent tone.

[5] Among the contributors in the first issue was Joaquim Aubert "Kim", whose comic strip "Martínez El Facha" (an archetypal Spanish Falange militant and Franco nostalgic) had the longest run in the history of the magazine, appearing without interruption for 1,972 weeks.

[6] Some other of its earliest and most emblematic contributors were Óscar Nebreda, Ventura y Nieto, Gin, Mariel, and Ramón Tosas Ivà, whose most successful comic-strip, starring the street-wise delinquent "Makinavaja", has been adapted into a play, two feature films, and a television series.

Written by Manel Fontdevila and drawn by Guillermo Torres, the cartoon showed the Prince of Asturias (later King of Spain Felipe VI) and his wife having sex.

[11] Under the heading "€2,500 per child" (alluding to the socialist government's plan to give that sum for each baby born to married couples with legal residence in Spain), the prince says: "Do you realize?

[16] On 5 and 6 June 2014, 14 senior cartoonists from El Jueves, including former editors Manel Fontdevila and Albert Monteys, announced their resignation, citing a dispute over another front cover cartoon that publisher RBA had censored.

[18] In December 2019 Spanish YouTuber Dalas Review uploaded a twenty-minute video discussing the complaint he filed against El Jueves for libel[19] upon some 2018 cartoons by artist Irene Márquez[20] in which he was branded a "pedophile, macho, retrograde, and stupid".

[23] El Jueves director Guille Martínez-Vela speaking for newspaper 20 minutos said the lawsuit was baseless and defended the magazine's posture invoking animus iocandi, a Latin locution used in law meaning "intended as a joke" (later said complaint was archived).