Comics

It says a lot about the way a lot of us live our lives, I think. Doesn’t have to, if you don’t want to look at it that way, but try telling that to the fanatics.

Here’s the way it goes: cat, mouse, dog. The cat (kat, more properly) is named Krazy, the mouse Ignatz, and the dog is the lawkeeper, Offisa Pupp. Krazy is in love with Ignatz Mouse, who isn’t exactly wild over the idea, and who responds by throwing bricks at Krazy, which sends Krazy into seventh heaven. Offisa Pup is also in love with Krazy, but is too much the gentleman to let it show, or maybe just plain too repressed, and he spends time agonizing over how to express it. It is Offisa Pupp’s duty to preserve law and order in Coconino County, where the action takes place, and law enforcement usually takes the form of preventing Ignatz from throwing — or even possessing — his brick. The punishment is jail. And that’s it, except for a couple of auxiliary characters like a duck named Mrs. Kwakk Wakk, the town gossip, and Kolin Kelly, who makes the bricks. In keeping with the relationship between law and commerce, Kelly is also a dog.