Piciel’s Khooro was published every Sunday between 1935 and 1975 in the English newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika (ABP). This newspaper gags captured the daily struggles of its eponymous protagonist, Khooro, a middle-aged clerk in Calcutta who witnessed first-hand the impacts of WWII and the Bengal Famine (1943). The object of satire in Khooro is the middle-class clerical body caught in these tumultuous times. Khooro depicts prevalent anxieties and fears of the middle-class clerical profession caught in the myriad civic issues of urbanity. Drawing on the methods of periodical and multimodal studies, this article analyzes Khooro gags to propose a “meta-imagetextual” reading of visual-verbal narratives in colonial periodicals that can be rightly called “concomitant literature.”