The 'Hurry Up' New Yorker No. 10—When He Tries to Get Some Work Done

Maurice Ketten's comic strip follows a harried office worker whose attempts to focus are thwarted by constant interruptions. Across ten panels, the protagonist ducks, dodges, and desperately seeks solitude, only to be chased by colleagues demanding his attention. The strip employs rapid sequential action, multiple viewpoints, and expressive lettering to convey frantic movement and mounting frustration. Published during the formative years of newspaper comics, it demonstrates how cartoonists of the era used panel progression, speech balloons, and physical comedy to tell visual stories. The recurring character and episodic structure typified the Sunday supplements that established the visual grammar foundational to comic books.