Created by caricature artist Juan Carlos Colombres, aka "Landrú", Tía Vicenta became highly popular, being one of the most influential magazines of its genre.

[4] After then de facto president of Argentina Juan Carlos Onganía was depicted as a walrus (a nickname given due to his big moustache), the dictatorship closed the magazine in July 1966.

[6] The current events weekly quickly earned renown for its satirical content, particularly regarding Argentine politics, and its circulation, which initially averaged 50,000, doubled shortly afterward.

The covers of Tía Vicenta, however, appeared for a number of weeks with a corner photo of Gómez in a circular insert with an epigraph asking: ¿A mi por qué me miran?

[9] Tía Vicenta also appeared as a supplement to the popular news daily El Mundo beginning in 1960,[10] and with a circulation ranging from 200,000 to 450,000 per issue it would become the best-selling magazine in the country.