The article deals with the contents and the situation of two Slovene illustrated newspapers, the liberal »Tedenske slike« and the clerical »Ilustrirani glasnik«. Both were started soon after the outbreak of the first world war and were stopped in turbulent times just before the end of the war and the decay of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Inspite of the fact that the Slovenes had had no big newspaper tradition until then — the immediate predecessor of the two being »Slovenski ilustrovani tednik« which appeared from 1911 up to the beginning of the first world war — both newspapers proved quite useful in making the Slovene reading audience acquainted with the first world war. Both of them, of course, relied to a great extent on foreign newspapers