He delivered the product of his genius to newspaper readers daily for almost 50 years, especially in 10,000 Krazy Kat comic strips and 1,500 full-page illustrations.

George Herriman’s raucous and bittersweet “Krazy Kat,” published from 1913 to 1944, was the most ingenious comic strip of the 20th century. It featured a black, beribboned cat named Krazy ...

This kat was krazy influential, but few knew his creator's secret "Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White," tells the story of a cartoonist and the past he kept hidden.

Herriman sent the Dingbat Family on vacation in one comic strip; during this time, he changed the comic strip's name, first to Krazy Kat and I. Mouse, before settling on the name Krazy Kat.

Krazy Kat was art, but it wasn't much like Hemingway's art, or Picasso's, or anyone else's, for that matter. In the first place, Herriman was funny, which gets you almost no points in the fine-art ...

And those ideas show up in the "Krazy Kat" strips, which ran until Herriman's death at 63. Sin, evil and punishment, along with Latin words and classical themes, can all be found in the cartoons.

Some aspect of this, more or less every day, for more or less 30 years, was the comic strip “Krazy Kat.” In isolation it seems as though it dropped out of the sky, and when its creator died in ...

But it was the heart and soul of Krazy Kat, a tremendously influential comic strip that ran for more than 30 years at a time when newspaper comic strips were among the most popular American art forms.

Author Michael Tisserand suggests a credible — and uncomfortable — explanation in “Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White,” a hefty new biography of the comic art pioneer.

“It comes from the Krazy Kat comic [by George Harriman]. In the comic, Krazy Kat loves the mouse Ignatz, and Ignatz, in return, throws a brick at Krazy Kat’s head.