{{Short description|Polish satirical magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Szpilki | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Szpilki magazine cover.jpeg | image_size = <!-- default is 180px --> | image_alt = Cover of ''Szpilki'' magazine illustrated with a cartoon of Santa Clause brandishing a club. | image_caption = Cover of ''Szpilki'' from the 1980s, illustrated by cartoonist Szczepan Sadurski.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sadurski |first1=Szczepan |title=Szpilki |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915092545/http://www.sadurski.com/sadurski/szpilki.htm |website=Sadurski.com |access-date=3 April 2024 |language=Polish}}</ref> | previous_editor = Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Leon Pasternak, Jerzy Zaruba | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Satire | frequency = | format = Magazine | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Eryk Lipiński | founded = 1936 | firstdate = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | finaldate = 1994 <!-- {{End date and age|1994|MM|DD}} --> | finalnumber = | company = | country = Poland | based = Three Crosses Square, Warsaw | language = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | issn = | eissn = | oclc = }}
'''''Szpilki''''' ({{IPA|pl|ˈʂpil.ki|-|LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-szpilki.wav}}, {{literally|Pins}}) was a Polish satirical magazine. It was established in 1936 by a group of lettered leftists, including Eryk Lipiński, {{ill|Zenon Wasilewski|pl}}, and {{ill|Zbigniew Mitzner|pl}} (chief editor).<ref>J. Łojek, J. Myśliński, W. Władyka, ''Dzieje prasy polskiej'', Warszawa 1988, p. 103, p. 119.</ref><ref name=psih>[https://reporterzy.info/224,prasa_satyryczna_i_humorystyczna_w_XIX_i_XX_wieku.html "Prasa satyryczna i humorystyczna w XIX i XX wieku"]</ref>
Its motto was {{lang|pl|Prawdziwa cnota krytyk się nie boi}} (True virtue is not afraid of criticism),<ref name=psih/> a quote from Ignacy Krasicki's mock-heroic poem ''{{ill|Monachomachia|lt=Monachomachia, or War of Monks|pl|Monachomachia, czyli Wojna mnichów}}''.
Suspended during World War II, it was resumed in 1945. In 1953 ''Szpilki'' was merged with another satirical magazine, ''Mucha''.<ref name=psih/>
Together with many other printed media, it was suspended during the period of martial law. From 1990 the magazine experienced difficulties, and after several attempts of reactivation it was closed in 1994.
==Further reading== {{Commons}} *Olaf Bergmann, ''"Prawdziwa cnota krytyk się nie boi..." Karykatura w czasopismach satyrycznych Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej'', 2012, {{ISBN|978-83-7181-733-5}}
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