Life — June 23, 1927 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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# Explanation for Modern Readers This is a caricature from *Life* magazine dated June 23, 1927, labeled "Everybody's Boy!" The drawing depicts James Montgomery Flagg, a famous American illustrator and cartoonist, rendered as an exaggerated caricatured head with prominent features and an airplane propeller extending from his neck. The propeller reference likely connects to the aviation craze of the 1920s, particularly the celebrity status surrounding aviators like Charles Lindbergh, whose transatlantic flight occurred just weeks before this issue (May 1927). By adding aviation imagery to Flagg's caricature, the cartoonist satirizes either Flagg's popular appeal or the era's obsession with aviation as the ultimate symbol of American modernity and heroism.