Judge, 1929-05-04 · page 9 of 36
Judge — May 4, 1929 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This is a humorous narrative about Judge magazine's annual outing/company picnic, told as absurdist comedy. The text describes increasingly ridiculous mishaps: staff members (Jefferson Mooney, Gardner Hanley, and others named) engage in chaotic activities—swimming, potato races where potatoes are eaten, people being "divided and eaten"—with darkly comedic cannibalism jokes. The three accompanying illustrations depict: (1) a crashed airplane with a girl nearby ("The girl who went wrong"), (2) a woman and children watching the disaster, and (3) a truck driver scene with the caption about "bright-eyes" and road etiquette. The satire appears to mock the magazine's own staff and contributors through exaggerated, surreal mishaps. The specific individuals named (Mooney, Hanley, Fuller, Clemens references) were likely recognizable to contemporary Judge readers as actual contributors or staff, making this inside-joke humor. The cartoons illustrate slapstick consequences of chaos rather than direct political commentary.
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merry tore the clothes off cach other and plunged into the Atlantic Oc + which hap- pened to be near Pig's Neck at the time. om we for counterfeit cries, we were diving dollars thrown Jefferson Moon treasurer. While this was going on Mr. was in the bath- house looking through our wallets whether we had brought uny drawings or storics for next week's issue, to us by y, our Looney Next on the schedule was the potato race, but when the gun was fired we found that all the tocs had becn eaten by Hanley. As pota Gardner revenge for his greedy action, he himself was di- vided’ and eaten and certainly proved delicious for n of fifty-six, While eatin Hanley somebody happened to notice that Jefferson McKe d Barksdale Trembath were missing and we came to the conclusion that the greedy Hanley had eaten the sportive twain. We also found that Samuel Clemens had not turned up after the swim and judged that Hanley also. must have eaten the sportive Twain, Just then Hanley the scene of the ring that we might someone appeared on t, thus infer- have eaten else. he sheriff has seized the mo- tor-cars!” he cried tremulously. Then we'll have to take the twain back home,” lisped one of the junior artists, He was a sound box on the getting perfect reception with it, something he could never do with his old one-dial set. And so, tired but happy, we piled into the stes were speeding by tering city. Gardner Fuller, Barksdale ‘Tousey, Milt Bush- tiller, and Jefferson Gross unfor- tunately blew up during the trip 1 cars and soon rk to the swel from eating poisonous berries and Barksdale Seuss, when the con- ductor punched his ticket, got up and punched the conductor. For » was handed over to the ks, > into a nd thrown 7 hours later, sunburned ary, but glad that we had Py We arrived in’ Penn The annual outing of con- tributors was at ation. “Judge” an end. JUDGE The girl who went wrong. Tousy—M-mother, bao-hoo—l wanta play Treex Deiven—Well, if it ain't little buddy wot give us some lip down the road an’ bright-eyes an’ his then stepped comicbooks.com