Covers for Cartelera Turia

During the mid-seventies, and for nearly a decade, the illustrator Miguel Calatayud regularly collaborated with the Cartelera Turia magazine in Valencia, for which he created over two hundred covers. It is an important job few people know about, or at least, not in its entirety. Despite its small size, Cartelera Turia, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014, is the leading reference publication of Valencia’s public life, and as its readers know, it has always been much more than just a simple cultural events guide.

This book, with the subtitle ‘Graphic Memoir of the Valencian Cultural Life from 1976 to 1983’, will provide readers with the perspective to appreciate the work of one of our main graphic artists during his work’s most mature period, and will give young people the opportunity to examine the exceptional moment of growth that Valencia experienced at the time. Looking back, the city seemed more like New York or The Athens of Pericles.

This volume collects the 223 covers from said period, in addition to three more works the artist created at a later date, and is completed with an article by Vicente Vergara, director of Cartelera Turia, as well as the transcription of a cheerful conversation between two friends: Miguel Calatayud himself and the jazz critic Federico García Herraiz, contributor of Cartelera Turia and lover of the most joyous Valencia.