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.

Krazy Kat was an icon of the 20th century — the magazine Vanity Fair called Herriman’s humor and originality “comparable only to ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ ” “Genius” is how Stan Lee ...

In the last panel at the bottom, Offissa Pup says to Krazy, “I hear you kats had a big time in the katnip field today, Krazy.” Replies the kat, “I should say we did . . .

New Orleans author Michael Tisserand contributed a biographic sketch of Herriman to the anniversary volume of select "Krazy Kat" cartoons. Tisserand, whose past books explored zydeco music and a ...

Not only is “Krazy Kat” (1913-44) the chief glory of the American newspaper comic strip, it evokes the salad days of the American newspaper itself, when a broadsheet was truly broad, not to ...