Gude Ingeborg (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. Oblong octavo. (48)pp. Each of Gude's 22 illustrations communicates a stridently anti-fascist excoriation of the Nazi regime. Most of her images recast figures as animals, attending to incomprehensible trauma from a distance bridged by dark humor. Gude damns Hitler repeatedly, portraying him as a stooge, a grotesque servant of Death, and even as a wasted Don Quixote. The cartoons follow a narrative that arcs from the frightening rise of a fascist military and complicit populace to the humiliation of the Axis powers and eventually a redemptive final image of two anonymous figures looking toward a sunrise. Captions at versos face the recto illustrations. Bound in black and white boards backed in black paper. Edges somewhat rubbed, else near fine. Scarce.