Krazy & Ignatz 1925-26: A Happy Lend Fur Away TP: The Komplete Kat comics 1925-1926 (Krazy and Ignatz) - Softcover

Herriman, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560973862 ISBN 13: 9781560973867

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2001

Synopsis

In 1999, the Comics Journal named Herriman's Krazy Kat the greatest comic strip of the 20th century. It's never been too well known (in the course of its 30-year run, it often survived only because of William Randolph Hearst's support), but cartoonists more or less agree it's a masterpiece. The premise couldn't be simpler: Krazy Kat loves Ignatz Mouse, who rejects the Kat's affections by throwing a brick at him? her? Krazy is both and neither whereupon Offisa Pupp arrests Ignatz. This was the plot of nearly every episode, but the beauty was in the variations Herriman could work on it and in his delirious sense of style. The primal comedy played out in thousands of ways, drawn with an incomparable design sense against a gorgeously stylized backdrop of the American Southwest and delivered with Herriman's hilarious dialogue half invented, half quasi-Joycean wordplay ('Ooy-yooy-yooy wot a goldish oak finish like a swell mihoginny piyenna l'il dusky dahlink!!!'). This first in a new series of reprints (designed by Chris Ware and edited by Bill Blackbeard) picks up where the series publish

About this title

Synopsis:

Re-presenting the finest example of the artform in the history of the graphic medium to a new generation of readers, this superbly designed collection collects what many consider to be Herriman's prime, 104 full-page Sunday strips from 1925 and 1926. Krazy and Ignatz is a love story, focusing on the relationships between its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored Ignatz Mouse, Ignatz Mouse hated Krazy Kat and Offisa Pup loved Krazy. This simple structure allowed Herriman to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, developing thematic depth that led critics like e.e. cummings to recognise Herriman's genius immediately.

About the Author:

George Herriman (1880-1944), the creator of Krazy Kat, was born in New Orleans and lived most of his life in Los Angeles, California. He is considered by many to be the greatest strip cartoonist of all time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1560973862
• ISBN 13: 9781560973867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Blackbeard Bill