Judge — May 14, 1927 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Co-ed Who Tried to Commit Suicide" This satirical comic strip from Judge magazine depicts a young woman's attempted suicide through increasingly dramatic means across five panels. In each panel, set in what appears to be an elegant interior, she attempts self-harm while a suited man (possibly a judge, given the magazine's masthead) observes or reacts with exaggerated concern. The satire likely critiques both female melodrama and male judicial authority of the era. The woman's escalating, theatrical suicide attempts—shown with comedic absurdity—mock contemporary anxieties about young women's emotional instability and hysteria. The suited observer's reactions suggest commentary on how authority figures (judges, doctors, or society generally) responded to women's distress, treating dramatic female behavior as spectacle rather than genuine crisis.