Text: Roman Holiday in the Spanish Bull Ring.
Year: 1938.
Publisher: Ken.
Artist: Derso & Kelen.
Additional information: The illustration depicts Spain personified as a bull, symbolizing the nation, being slain by weapons representing various factions of the Spanish Civil War. The bull is impaled with a sickle, a swastika-handled sword, a star-and-crescent sword, a fasces, a bayonet, an arrow, and more. British, German, and French ships sail around Iberia, while German planes fly overhead. The Republican flag flies from a smouldering Barcelona, and Mallorca is depicted as an Italian stronghold. The illustration was created by Derso & Kelen, a cartoonist duo living in Switzerland at the time, and was published in Ken, a magazine active between 1938-1939.
Roman Holiday in the Spanish Bull Ring (American illustration, 1938)
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