Judge — July 27, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a single-panel cartoon by James Montgomery Flagg showing a basset hound lying on a large bone, looking up with an expression of complaint or confrontation. The caption reads "I have a bone to pick with you!" The humor is a visual pun: the dog literally has a bone (the object it's lying on) while using the common idiom "to have a bone to pick with someone," which means to have a grievance or complaint to discuss. The cartoon plays on this double meaning for comedic effect. There's no apparent political or social satire here—it's simply a wordplay-based joke typical of Judge magazine's lighter humor content. The basset hound's droopy expression adds to the comedic effect, suggesting mock indignation.