Krazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd) by George Herriman

And it’s kind of a love triangle, but it’s a love triangle that goes in lots of different directions. And I get the feeling sometimes that George Herriman would call one of his friends and say, “Quick, I need an article in Esquire to keep my job!” And they would run another piece saying, “George Herriman is the greatest genius in comics.”īut Krazy Kat is a comic about a little white mouse named Ignatz, and a black cat named Krazy Kat, and a dog named Officer Pup. But then in the Hearst newspapers, where the comic “Krazy Kat” ran, this horrible thing, a readers poll, would take place and would ask readers: “Name your favorite comic strip.”Īnd Krazy Kat always sank to the bottom of the list, and would get pulled from papers after these polls. Michael Tisserand: George Herriman was the cartoonist’s cartoonist, so all his peers loved him, and the intellectuals of the day would write articles about how he was a genius.

Summarize what the strip is like and what made it great. And I bet most people have never encountered it in the modern day. Rico Gagliano: First of all, “Krazy Kat,” not incredibly popular in its day. During the 1910s, New Orleans cartoonist George Herriman created one of the greatest and most influential comic strips ever: “Krazy Kat.” Now, Michael Tisserand - who’s penned several non-fiction books about New Orleans people and culture - has published an exhaustive biography called “ Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White.” It’s about Herriman’s life… and the secret that only came to light after his death.

Krazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd) by George Herriman