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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Glen David Gold, The Washington Post KRAZY: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White By Michael Tisserand. Harper. 560 pp. $35. ISBN 978-0061732997 ...

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 ...

In this 1939 color panel, the zeitgeist of Krazy Kat is laid out simply: Ignatz Mouse won't stop lobbing bricks at the oblivious Krazy Kat, while Officer Pupp dreams of putting Ignatz in jail for good ...

“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 ...

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