Notes concerning spectatorship and framing:

• The Kid has become a credulous spectator, taking the phonograph at its word.
• But in spite of this strip's flattening of audience-performance relations, the punchline does present a stylized version of the transgression of performance boundaries.

Notes concerning the business of the strips:

• The urban setting of older strips has been replaced by a nondescript background.

Richard F. Outcault, "The Yellow Kid and His New Phonograph," New York Journal 25 Oct. 1896, rpt. in R.F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics (Northampton,Massachusetts: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995) plate 41.