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Krazy Kat (also known as Krazy & Ignatz in some reprints and compilations) is an American newspaper comic strip, created by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run
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.
Aug 10, 2011 · During its 31-year run, Krazy Kat was enormously popular with the public, as well as influential writers, artists, and intellectuals of the time.
- Biography & Early Work
- Plot & Characters
- Style & Reputation
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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.
Apr 11, 2023 · The first African-American neighborhood in the United States left an indelible impression on the Krazy Kat creator, who grew up in a mixed-race Creole family. The cartoon captured the...
Dec 11, 2019 · This simple premise was the basis of Krazy Kat, a comic strip created by George Herriman in the early 1910s, which by 1935 had found its way in to colour comic supplements of the Sunday editions of William Randolph Hearst’s various newspapers across the US.
Jun 5, 2017 · George Herriman’s comic strip Krazy Kat has been discussed in mythic terms for more than half a century. This article argues that much of this ‘mythology’ has not been founded on the material itself, but rather on memories and recollections of readers and critics.
