Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 60: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Whiz Bang* contains three brief satirical anecdotes rather than cartoons: 1. **"How're Everything?"** mocks upper-class pretension by describing a "high-brow" Boston family dining at a casual market restaurant, where a waiter addresses the mother familiarly as "sister"—implying democracy and informality trump social status. 2. **"The Height of Sociability"** is a dry joke about Prohibition-era lawbreaking: a farmer finds bootleg whiskey on his property and reports it to police, treating an illegal act as a civic duty. 3. **"Tough Guys"** satirizes street toughs and their exaggerated, nonsensical threats using period dialect ("darkies," "dat gal"), mocking their performative masculinity and absurd violence rhetoric. The satire targets class pretense, Prohibition hypocrisy, and street culture stereotypes.