The street parade could be divided easily into panels. The background flattens the composition into a linear progression, and the viewer reads from left to right as she follows the parade from beginning to end.
Mose the talking chicken lends the strip a surreal air and distances it from New York when he crosses over into Hogan's Alley from Luks's Uncle Remus strip.
George Luks, "A Street Parade to Advertise
Mose's Incubator Show," cartoon, World 23 Jan. 1898. Reproduced from microfilm.
