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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...