Judge — October 17, 1925 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a political cartoon from *Judge* magazine featuring a caricatured ape-like figure reading "The Daily Yellow" newspaper. The figure appears designed as racist commentary, though the specific political target is unclear from the image alone. The cartoon likely satirizes "yellow journalism"—sensationalist newspaper reporting—by depicting a grotesque figure engaged with such a publication. The exaggerated, simian features suggest the cartoonist was making a dehumanizing visual argument about readers or producers of sensationalist media. The newspaper shown contains panels about missing persons and rewards, typical tabloid fare. Without additional context about the publication date and specific events referenced, the precise political target remains uncertain, though the work reflects the era's problematic racial caricature conventions common in American satire of that period.