“Krazy Kat,” George Herriman’s exuberant and idiosyncratic newspaper comic, was never broadly popular. From the beginning, though, it found fans among writers and artists. P. G. Wodehouse compared it ...
Of all classic comic strips, George Her­riman’s Krazy Kat was the most bril­liantly formulaic. For over 30 years, the daily installment climaxed more often than not wi1h the strip’s eponymous star ...
There are many people who consider Krazy Kat to be the greatest comic strip of all time -- the most original, the best drawn, the most personal and idiosyncratic. Unfortunately, it is not as ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Glen David Gold, The Washington Post KRAZY: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White By Michael Tisserand. Harper. 560 pp. $35. ISBN 978-0061732997 ...
Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” doesn’t bury its lead. Tisserand begins his deeply researched and brilliantly written book by sharing what was once a well-kept ...
"Krazy Kat has racial implications we're still trying to grapple with and understand as a country," Tisserand says. Tisserand was living in Chicago when he saw the touring exhibit Masters of American ...
In this 1939 color panel, the zeitgeist of Krazy Kat is laid out simply: Ignatz Mouse won't stop lobbing bricks at the oblivious Krazy Kat, while Officer Pupp dreams of putting Ignatz in jail for good ...