In classic rude boy style, Ignatz breaks the rules of this performance by using stolen bricks to play the game.
Herriman portrays the circulation of money and bricks through Coconino County in great detail, carefully attending to the economy of his fantastic world.
George Herriman, Krazy
Kat, 15 Apr. 1917; rpt. in Patrick McDonnell, Karen
O'Connell, Georgia riley de Havenon, Krazy Kat: The Comic Art
of George Herriman (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986), 20.