Judge — November 7, 1891 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a darkly satirical instructional comic sequence titled "How to Kill a Cat," showing a figure performing increasingly violent actions culminating in drowning. The OCR'd text references finding "the largest rock" and reaching "home" with something "waiting for you on the door-step." The satirical point likely mocks cruel folk remedies or superstitions about pest control that were common in earlier eras. Judge magazine frequently used grotesque visual humor to critique social problems and backward practices. The final panel's implication—that karma or consequence awaits the perpetrator—suggests the cartoon's moral commentary: such cruelty brings its own punishment. The style is consistent with late-19th or early-20th century American satirical cartooning, using exaggeration and dark humor as social critique.