“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 ...
Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” doesn’t bury its lead. Tisserand begins his deeply researched and brilliantly written book by sharing what was once a well-kept ...
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 ...
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 cartoonist ...