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UBU - December 1970 - Year I - No 1 - £ 300

In December of 1970 released by Milan Books Publishing the first issue of this journal, directed by Franco cultural frameworks and with a Writing of all respect, they belong, among others, Conrad Augias, Alberto Boatto, Oreste del Buono, Gianni Buttafava, Fernanda Pivano Gianni Rondolino, Crepax, Roland Topor, Copi, Aldo Rostagno, Gianfranco Mantegna and many other leading professionals.

the journal title is a reference to Alfred Jarry's grotesque piéce Ubu roi, a work of 1896 for language, characters and sitazioni is considered a forerunner of the Surrealist movement and theater of the absurd.

Unlike all the magazines that start with an editorial, which explain their purpose, UBU says it is not immediately clear what , and does so with this little insert:

All 'inside the following services:

• Calendar of underground and anger
• New American Cinema 70 years
• The medium is the videotape
• Manifesto for a theater is a theater of simultaneous
• strike
• A tale of Bread Puppet Theatre and The Living
• chooses the action
• Revolution is the scene in the street
• Examples
• guerrilla theater scene in the process of Chicago
• Situation theater off off
• Yippie Party Manifesto
• Declaration of Independence Declaration of Timothy Leary
• Pig Amerika war on the Weatherman Underground
• The cultural revolution in Amerika
• Hellotrope: a program of anti-university courses
• "Comics and Stories of Crumb
• Pop - Rock Story
• Feiffer
• The fifth was
• ecology Remember!
• Glossary minimum of the counterculture in Italy
• Lebel - Scabia: conflict and contradiction
• Movies and shows the month
• "U" Crepaz

The language is that "revolutionary" era, those who really believe that you can change the world, the balance of power, is counter-information, with the anti-university with street theater, and videotapes.