Judge — December 11, 1926 — page 35: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page showcases **Contest No. 72**, a reader-submission competition where Judge magazine invited non-professional artists to complete a comic strip's ending for a $25 prize. The left side displays an incomplete three-panel strip (artist signed "MICT") showing someone attempting to catch a football under a tree, with increasingly chaotic results—establishing a setup without resolution. The right side displays **previous contest winners and runners-up** from Contest No. 66, showing various humorous "conclusions" to an earlier prompt: someone at a desk, a witch flying into a window, a magician's act, and a dinner party scene. This was a participatory feature common to Judge—a humor magazine dependent on satirical cartoons. Rather than pure satire, this particular page is primarily a **contest announcement and showcase**, inviting reader creativity while demonstrating the magazine's editorial standards for wit and visual comedy. The appeal lay in readers matching professional cartoonists' comedic timing.