Judge — August 28, 1926 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of "Done to a Turn" This comic strip satirizes a woman's disastrous two-week vacation attempt. The opening panel shows her bragging about spending "two whole weeks" in the sun. The subsequent panels chronicle her misery: constant rain for the first ten days, fog on day fourteen, and ultimately—upon returning home—she's been "done to a turn" (a cooking metaphor meaning thoroughly cooked/ruined). The final panel's punchline shows her friends admiring her tan, not realizing it resulted from comedic bad luck rather than relaxation. The satire targets vacation expectations versus reality, and perhaps the 1920s-era obsession with fashionable sun tans as status symbols. The humor lies in how she endured relentless weather only to achieve the desired appearance by accident.