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• 1 Win // Dec 11, 2012 at 4:46 pm

  Kind of a Krazy Kat payoff image going on in the last frame of this strip.

  I just read that after the passage of the Revenue Act of 1926 alluded to in this cartoon, only the richest 2% of taxpayers in the country paid any federal income tax. Nowadays, of course, the richest 2% are the only ones in the country who pay no federal income tax.

• 2 Doug // Dec 11, 2012 at 10:26 pm

  Ignatz wasn’t the only cartoon character to throw things!

• 3 Win // Dec 13, 2012 at 8:48 pm

  George Herriman was one of the people who helped Fisher produce Mutt and Jeff in the 1920s, so who knows, perhaps that back-of-the-noggin blow was part of a shared repertoire…