Mutt and Jeff. What's coming off / Fisher.

Five-frame comic strip showing Mutt and Jeff, as sailors, on deck of ship, receiving knitted muffler and socks from ladies.
Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Bud Fisher Satirizes Knitting Projects and Comments on Freedom. On a wager that he could not "stick it out," Bud Fisher trained as an American soldier during World War I. However, the Army prohibited him from producing his profitable comic strip, so he joined the Canadian forces. He served in London, working as a censor while continuing to draw his popular feature, Mutt and Jeff. Wanting to promote the war effort, Fisher had his characters enlist, although the comic strip rarely featured the war front. In this cartoon, he focuses his wartime humor on a hapless knitter.

Published May 25, 1917.
Purchase; The Illustration House; 1994; (DLC/PP-1994:047).
Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May - November 2016.