A Krazy Kat strip dated 1939. As published in "Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White," by Michael Tisserand. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions) George Herriman may be the most influential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost nobody remembers Krazy Kat today. It has gone to the funny-paper graveyard along with the Katzenjammer Kids, Rip Kirby, Terry and the Pirates, the Yellow Kid, Little Nemo and dozens-hundreds?

In his examination of these early strips leading up to (or contemporary with) “Krazy Kat,” Tisserand analyzes Herriman’s humor. Herriman sometimes made use of minstrel and other racial ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, Edited and designed by Craig Yoe Not only is “Krazy Kat” (1913-44) the chief glory of the American newspaper comic strip; it evokes the salad days of ...