The New Yorker #44
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn the 1926 issue of The New Yorker, "If Looks Could Kill" presents a surreal, deadpan moment of social tension at the theater—where a man’s ill-timed seat maneuver triggers an unexpectedly literal reaction from the women around him. Written and illustrated by Frueh, with inks by Frueh, the story blends dry wit with a touch of absurd horror, all captured in the period’s distinctive visual style.
In a quiet moment at the theatre, a man’s awkward scramble for his seat draws sharp, withering glares from the women beside him—glances so potent they leave him utterly, and quite literally, undone. A single page of absurd humor from The New Yorker’s 1926 issue, where etiquette meets the supernatural in the most unexpected way.
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Reprinted in Cartoon Cavalcade #[nn] (1943)
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