The Wasp — 1893 — page 508: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a humorous comic strip titled "A Legend of Sausalito: Descriptive of the Awful Fate of One Snooks Who Went Fishing on Sunday." The strip depicts a man named Snooks who goes fishing on the Sabbath (Sunday), which violated strict Victorian-era religious observance. As punishment for this transgression, he encounters increasingly dangerous crocodiles/alligators in the water that repeatedly attack him across the sequential panels. The satire targets both religious hypocrisy and those who violated Sunday observance laws—common in 19th-century America. The exaggerated consequences represent a moralistic cautionary tale, typical of *The Wasp*'s satirical content. The repetitive, escalating attacks create dark comedy from what was considered sinful behavior.