Judge — June 23, 1923 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a six-panel comic strip drawn by Lynne Turner about an amateur artist's chaotic attempts to create drawings. The narrative follows someone trying to draw, creating increasingly absurd mishaps—overturned furniture, scattered papers, and general destruction—while pursuing artistic ambition. The final panel shows two figures admiring a finished drawing, with one exclaiming they'd give anything to draw like that. The caption's punchline—"It's worth it sometimes, though, isn't it?"—suggests the humor lies in the gap between artistic aspiration and comedic reality: the character has caused tremendous mess and destruction, yet still values the end result enough to justify the chaos. It's gentle satire of artistic pretension and the suffering-artist trope, using physical comedy rather than political commentary.