His stamp is everywhere in the culture, for Krazy Kat inspired everyone from Jack Kerouac to Charles Schulz. Tisserand tells a big story and a compelling one. Equally spellbinding is the deeply ...

creator of the Krazy Kat comic strip. Krazy Kat, which ran from 1913 to 1944, featured a goofy, loose-limbed feline who was an original among the comic strips and cartoons of his era. Krazy Kat ...

“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 ...

Edited and designed by Craig Yoe Abrams ComicArts. 176 pp. $29.95 Not only is “Krazy Kat” (1913-44) the chief glory of the American newspaper comic strip, it evokes the salad days of the ...

New Orleans-born Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman (Photo by Will Connell, courtesy Michael Tisserand) "Krazy: A Life in Black and White," the biography of Crescent City-born newspaper ...

When George Herriman died in 1944, Time magazine called the creator of the popular "Krazy Kat" comic strip "a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness." It might seem strange to use a religious ...

When George Herriman created his weekly Krazy Kat comic from 1913 until his death in 1944, it was held up as a work of art for its visual creativity, absurdity and complex characterization.