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 ...

Michael Tisserand’s new biography “Krazy,” will introduce its readers to an American genius they’ve probably never heard of — George Herriman, creator of the Krazy Kat comic strip. Krazy Kat, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Krazy Kat and Ignatz set out for the wilds on Krazy's bike; Krazy's promises to teach Ignatz about bugology. After crashing the bike into a tree, they come upon a bee (Krazy says it's sleeping, Ignatz ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...