Life — November 16, 1928 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Skippy's Letters" - A Comics Page This is a humorous fiction piece by Percy L. Crosby featuring a character named "Skippy" writing to "Dear Sooky." The narrative is a sentimental story about a Prince who abandons his wealth to live in the woods, eventually solving life's problems through simple living. The accompanying cartoon at bottom shows two boys in casual conversation outdoors, captioned "The Reason," with a joke about attributing long life to "the fact that the sheriff still don't know who shot Jim Williams"—a reference to unsolved frontier violence. The satire appears aimed at sentimental moralizing tales popular in the era, while the cartoon makes light of rural lawlessness and unpunished crime as a dark comic aside.