Life — July 21, 1927 — page 14: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This six-panel comic strip satirizes the contrasting behavior of the same man during weekdays versus weekends. During the workweek (top panels), he appears as a respectable businessman—professional, composed, moving through corridors of doors with purpose and decorum. By the weekend (bottom panels), his demeanor transforms dramatically. He becomes disheveled, wild-haired, and increasingly chaotic—shown leaving homes in disarray, appearing intoxicated or unhinged, and generally abandoning all propriety. The satire targets the hypocrisy of respectable society: the buttoned-up professional man who transforms into an uncontrolled hedonist once freed from work obligations. It mocks both his pretense during the week and his loss of restraint on weekends, suggesting the facade of respectability conceals a far less dignified reality.