Blum et Cie; Projets de Publicite. Creation Roger Roy, Éditions Le Rire No 928 du 14 Novembre 1936.
Paris: Le Rire, 1936. Magazine. [20]p., 12.5x9 inch self-wraps, a cheaply-made magazine with about twenty pages of captioned caricatures on newsprint, all fullpage b&w cartoons with a centerfold in three colors. Paper very toned and verging on fragile, cover is edgeworn with abraded spinefold, has a small clear-tape reinforcement at the head but tail is also split (one inch). On a positive note, staples are bright and have not injured the color plate, item is fair to good, remains handleable.
The center-stapled doublespread shows a drooling Stalin raping La France while Blum and company look on. A twice-recurring figure in the suite of b&w drawings is the monetary unit of France, the franc, depicted as Jesus, his circumcision and entombment. Anti-socialist bias, demonic Stalin portrayed multiple times. We see only one anti-fascist image: it shows a swastika'd flag planted in the heart of France, accompanied by skewering flags that represent Masonry, Britain, US, USSR, Italy, Japan, others.
Cat.No: 243595
Price: $20.00