Left-wing America against encroaching fascism
Ken was an American avant-garde magazine with a short-lived existence of a year and a half. This publication included Ernest Hemingway among its writers, and took a strong stance against what it viewed as the “enemies of freedom,” portraying these adversaries as a modern-day Black Death. This humorous cartoon illustrations the underlying menace associated with the spread of fascism.
Ken, the Insiders World / C. Ackerman, Carriers of the new Black Plague, Chicago 1938, in: Ken, Vol. 1, No. 1. Coll. S/T W.9e.77, 34.5 x 53.5 cm.
Ken, the Insiders World / J. Groth, South America under the Axis or the Salvation with the Monroe Doctrine, Chicago 1938, in: Ken, Vol. 1, No. 2. Coll. S/T W.7y.9, 34.5 x 53.5 cm.
