05 Aug 2014
A Really Bad Day
Achille Beltrame, Illustrations, Pulp Fiction
The Italian reads: “In the middle of the Indian forest, a man waiting for the train to stop just near the line. Suddenly, a boa attacks its victim, squeezing with its powerful coils. But then a tiger hurls itself upon the huge reptile which wraps, then, even the beast in a stranglehold. A monstrous tangle occurs, meanwhile, along comes the train. The whole tangle winds up bloody and broken by the wheels of the train.”
Via Ratak Mondosico.
More of the bloodcurdling illustrations of the great Achille Beltrame can be seen here.
Achille Beltrame (1871-1945)did the cover of La Domenica del Corriere every week from its beginning in 1899 until his own death in 1945.
