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- Despite the slapstick simplicity of the general premise, the detailed characterization, combined with Herriman's visual and verbal creativity, made Krazy Kat one of the first comics to be widely praised by intellectuals and treated as "serious" art.
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The creator of quite possibly the most beloved comic strip of the past thirty years calls Krazy Kat 'such a pure and completely realized personal vision that the strip's inner mechanism is ultimately as unknowable as George Herriman,' the artist who wrote and drew it for its entire three-decade run from 1913 to 1944.
In 1999, Krazy Kat was rated #1 in a Comics Journal list of the best American comics of the 20th century; the list included both comic books and comic strips. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps .
Krazy Kat has been that rare comic strip that becomes a darling of intellectuals. The culture critic Gilbert Seldes started this in the early 20s in an essay in his landmark work on pop culture The Seven Lively Arts.
Jan 21, 2021 · Krazy Kat by George Herriman, specifically, the Sunday strips that ran from 1916-1944, is my single favorite work in the medium of comics. On first blush, it can be fairly incomprehensible. It is structured around an unusual slapstick setup that might be a tad opaque to a new reader.
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George Herriman was born on August 22nd 1880, in New Orleans, though his family moved to Los Angeles six years later. George moved to New York City in 1900, and his first cartoons appear in Judge magazine the following year, succeeded soon after by his first newspaper strips. His work soon gained some positive attention: as early as 1902, there is ...
In case anyone isn’t familiar with the strip, I’ll explain the basics. Ignatz Mouse hates Krazy Kat, and expresses this by throwing bricks at the cat. Krazy interprets these attacks, because of race memory of some events in Ancient Egypt (where bricks were used as a delivery medium for love letters), as tokens of love. Offissa Pupp adores Krazy too...
Clearly the characters now read as archetypal: you can find the same cat/mouse/bulldog confrontations in Tom & Jerry. However, this wasn’t so then; I’ve seen claims that the first KK animation, in 1916, is also the first animated cat. It’s also worth noting that the animal nature of the characters is mostly irrelevant: it’s a character comedy rathe...
Modernism is a tricky concept: it’s generally billed as a reaction to the end of the certainties and absolute truths of previous times, particularly religion and the Enlightenment. Writers talk of a ‘project’ to find a new way, not reliant on undermined ideas of the past. But the idea that Modernists – in art, literature and elsewhere – were seekin...
There are two directions here: where did this extraordinary strip come from, and who has it affected in the decades since? To be honest, the first is largely guesswork – despite Seldes’s efforts, comic strips were not taken so seriously that there are in-depth interviews with Herriman. We know a few things: his favourite writer was Dickens, but I c...
The Elisabeth Crocker essaymentioned several times above. The chapter on Krazy Kat from Gilbert Seldes’ The Seven Lively Arts. A short piece by me partly about KKon Freaky Trigger.
Oct 29, 2023 · Krazy Kat is a comic strip that focuses on the curious relationship between a genuine, simple-minded cat named Krazy and a short-tempered mouse named Ignatz. Krazy loves the mouse, while Ignatz despises Krazy and often throws bricks at the cat, which Krazy interprets as a sign of affection.
Universally acclaimed as one of the most original and influential comic strips, Krazy Kat has long been praised for its philosophical meanderings, poetic dialogue, changing backgrounds, exquisite art and strange props. Read more.
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