. . . "ike race and gender, as well as categories such as class, age, ethnicity, and occupation, so deeply in the sophisticated allegory of his comic strip, however, that few readers noticed them.??? In one of his most metaphysical pictures Herriman presents Krazy as saying to Ignatz: I ain't a Kat, and I ain't Krazy ...it is wot's behind me that I am . . . it is the idea behind me, 'Ignatz' and he is wo" .