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 ...

"George Herriman's Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays" is a dynamite introduction to one of the most dysfunctional duos ever found on the funny pages. It's also a book-shelf must-have for anyone ...

Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman, Edited and designed by Craig Yoe Not only is “Krazy Kat” (1913-44) the chief glory of the American newspaper comic strip; it evokes the salad days of the ...

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 ...

In his home near Hollywood last week, the gentlest, most poetic of U.S. popular artists laid down his pen at last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a ...

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 ...

newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat was beloved by a few intellectuals and publishing giant William Hearst. It was turned into a series of animated cartoons several times in the silent era, but the ...

“Krazy Times,” a solo exhibition of new paintings and watercolors by artist and UC Davis alum Vonn Cummings Sumner (MFA 2000), is on view at Morton Fine Art in Washington D.C., from Oct. 9 through Nov ...

In the beginning, there was Krazy Kat, a creative triumph so perfect, the critic Gilbert Seldes wrote in 1924 that it was “the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced in ...

Genius is simplicity. A dog, who is a policeman, loves a cat who loves a mouse. The mouse throws bricks at the cat, and the policeman jails him. Some aspect of this, more or less every day, for more ...

This Sunday is the anniversary of the end of one of the greatest comic strips of all time. On June 25, 1944, the final installment of “Krazy Kat” was published, two months after the death of its ...