Simpliccimus Magazine Cover, 23 February 1925.

Simplicissimus was a German weekly satirical publication founded in Munich in 1896, rapidly becoming notorious for brazen, confrontational editorial which caricatured key military and political figures and class issues of the day.

I’ve now developed a mild obsession with finding physical examples of its covers, all of which feature distinctively macabre graphic work that would look as appropriate illustrating a particularly involved scene from Russian fairy tale as sending up whichever political wrangling found itself under the knife.

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