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Original Title:	Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
ISBN:	0810991853 (ISBN13: 9780810991859)
Edition Language:	English

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
Author	:	George Herriman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2004 by Harry N. Abrams (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Comics. Humor. Art. Nonfiction. Graphic Novels. Comix

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This book is great, especially for the student of comics history, interested in comics origins. Herriman is one of the greats, one you have to know, who did a lot of comics over the years, but is best known for Krazy Kat, begun as a strip in 1913, and championed and funded by no less a comics sugar daddy than William Randolph Hearst (yes, the tyrant loved comics and insisted on them in all his syndicated newspapers, so a few comics artists and cartoonists made a living with his support for decades), got a life time contract from him to continue the strip until his death in 1941. Strips/cartoons about cats and mice and dogs were and are in many ways the stuff of comics, or central to the enterprise, a way to make people laugh and a way to comment on the human condition and social issues. But this animal schtick began back then, more than a hundred years ago with him and others. But this is a narrative that depends on something bizarre (and funny--strange but funny)--a masochistic mouse and a cat--beaned strip after strip by bricks the mouse throws--who sees the mouse's attentions as love. There are plenty more bizarre things, too, and more bizarre, to our sensibilities, which I like.

Herriman loved the southwest and sets his strips often in the desert. They are not conventionally drawn, sometimes very sketchy, with idiosyncratic and linguistically complex dialogue--Herriman liked dialects of all kinds--and are at times goofy, and at other times just surreal. Sometimes hard to read, decipher. Sometimes the humor, decades later, is lost on me.

This edition is 1999, the text having been written in 1986, a loving scholarly and archival tribute by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell and George Riley de Havemon, who write biographical essays, and essays about his art, not just Krazy Kat. And lots of strips that would otherwise be lost. So we have them to thank.

Black Rat and Little Tommy Lost by Clyde Closser, among others, pay tribute to Herriman in their comics. Worth checking out, comics history fans.

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I <3 krazy kat

KRAZY KAT, the anarchic American comic strip that played in American newspaper in the middle of the 20th Century, simply refuses to be forgotten -- it's that good. This intro book has the dual distinctions of being an economical method into the KRAZY world, and offering valuable background and numerous panels from the long-discontinued strip. Caveat: Becoming a krazy kollector is not cheap, so here's a good way to test the waters without going all krazy prematurely. Highly recommended. Also

For anyone who doesn't know about Krazy Kat, the most influential comic strip of all times, this is a good intro to the alternate reality created George Herriman and inhabited by a multitude of anthropomorphic characters for over 30 years. Poetic, funny, sad, breath-taking, and ultimately beautiful, Krazy Kat is less a "comic strip" and more a meditation on the rapture of existence. George Herriman takes a simple comic construct from the early years of "the funnies", cat chases mouse, turned it

Here's a joke: a sadist, a masochist and a police officer are stuck in the middle of the desert. Ha ha ha ha!!! Peanuts is the same thing ("you're going to love this, it's about a depressed child who constantly fails at being better liked than his dog"), satire as a way of dealing with desires and emotions that might otherwise get overwhelming and cause real problems. I'll admit I'm one of these suckers who claims to be intellectual because I appreciate the deeper subtext of the comics I sit

This book is great, especially for the student of comics history, interested in comics origins. Herriman is one of the greats, one you have to know, who did a lot of comics over the years, but is best known for Krazy Kat, begun as a strip in 1913, and championed and funded by no less a comics sugar daddy than William Randolph Hearst (yes, the tyrant loved comics and insisted on them in all his syndicated newspapers, so a few comics artists and cartoonists made a living with his support for

Love the art and often the writing, though it can be hard to follow.

Picked this up because I read in Bill Watterson's essays that he was most inspired by Krazy Kat. The text was fascinating but the strips were too small to enjoy. It's hard to find a decent reproduction of the Krazy Kat strip.