Life — April 12, 1923 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "You and Your Haircut" - Life Magazine Satire This six-panel comic by James Montgomery Flagg satirizes the frustrations of getting a haircut during wartime shortages (likely WWI era, given the references). The humor centers on absurd situations a man encounters: 1. A barber cuts hair in a moving train 2. A customer endures an "Achenian cut-worm" eating into his head 3. Finding a badger has created the haircut 4. A kookaburra's bite explains the result 5. The man's disheveled appearance makes him unrecognizable 6. He's locked out of his own home for 30 days due to his appearance The satire mocks wartime inconveniences and the difficulty of obtaining basic services, presenting increasingly absurd explanations for poor haircuts as comic commentary on scarcity and everyday frustrations.