Notes concerning spectatorship and framing:

• The horizontally linear composition with its series of rectangular incubator windows prefigures the development of sequential panels.
• The indoor setting flattens the pictorial space and erases the ghetto.
• The representation of spectators at the far left has been confined to a very narrow portion of the cartoon's picture space.

Notes concerning the culture of the marketplace:

• Mose the trained chicken is an expert promoter: the talking animal plays the same no-nonsense, "bottom line" role as the working-class Kid.

Notes concerning the business of the strips:

• Mose has crossed over into the world of Hogan's Alley from an "Uncle Remus" cartoon by Luks, illustrating the transformation of the strip from a representation of the city into a fantastic space encompassing all of the newspaper's intellectual property.

George Luks, "Mose the Great TrainedChicken Runs an Incubator Show," cartoon, World 16Jan. 1898. Reproduced from microfilm.