Life — September 22, 1921 — page 22: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a satirical comic strip by F.G. Cooper that uses the nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy" (born Monday, died Saturday) as a framework to mock unethical behavior and hypocrisy across the week. The strip depicts a rotund figure engaging in increasingly questionable activities: profiteering, voting for restrictive laws, raising rents, evicting tenants, tax evasion, cheating at golf, and sanctimonious behavior. The final panel suggests this cycle is endless—"no end of Solomon Grundys." The satire targets wealthy or powerful individuals who exploit the poor through rent-raising and evictions while maintaining moral pretense and participating in corrupt voting or profiteering. It's a critique of systemic inequality and the hypocrisy of the privileged classes.