Notes concerning the culture of the marketplace:

• Representatives of legal authority like dogcatchers and policemen frequently suffer abuse at the hands of the anti-authoritarian residents of Hogan's Alley.

Richard Felton Outcault, "The YellowKid Treats the Crowd to a Horseless Carriage Ride," cartoon,New York Journal 17 Oct. 1897; rpt. in R.F. Outcault'sThe Yellow Kid: A CentennialCelebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics,(Northampton, Massachusetts:Kitchen Sink Press, 1995) plate 89.