Notes concerning spectatorship and framing:

• In classic rude boy style, Ignatz breaks the rules of this performance by using stolen bricks to play the game.

Notes concerning the business of the strips:

• 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, KrazyKat, 15 Apr. 1917; rpt. in Patrick McDonnell, KarenO'Connell, Georgia riley de Havenon, Krazy Kat: The Comic Artof George Herriman (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986), 20.