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, who loves a ...

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?

This Sunday is the anniversary of the end of one of the greatest comic strips of all time. On June 25, 1944, the final installment of “Krazy Kat” was published, two months after the death of its ...

Ignatz Mouse and Kolin Kelly have their hands full trying to out-build Krazy. No matter what improvement Kelly puts on his new pre-fab house, Krazy goes him one better. It's the kraziest house in ...

newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat was beloved by a few intellectuals and publishing giant William Hearst. It was turned into a series of animated cartoons several times in the silent era, but the ...

In 1913 George Herriman gave us Krazy Kat. Kat originally ran from 1913 to 1944 in the New York Evening Journal. The Platinum age comic strip centered around a carefree cat named Krazy, and his ...

Of all classic comic strips, George Her­riman’s Krazy Kat was the most bril­liantly formulaic. For over 30 years, the daily installment climaxed more often than not wi1h the strip’s eponymous star ...

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 ...

“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 compared it ...

When George Herriman died in 1944, Time magazine called the creator of the popular "Krazy Kat" comic strip "a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness." It might seem strange to use a religious reference ...

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