The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who
incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog
Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat,
tries to prevent. George Herriman endlessly plays with the above
formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from
1913 until his death in 1944. Through his wit, detailed
characterization, and visual-verbal creativity, Herriman introduced
even the least comically-inclined to the young medium; Gertrude
Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, US
President Woodrow Wilson, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Chaplin, Frank
Capra, P.G. Wodehouse, Willem de Kooning-all KK fans among many
others. It was thanks to media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, a
confirmed fan who gave Herriman carte blanche in his newspapers,
that the artist was allowed to freely explore countless absurd and
melancholy variations on the theme of unrequited love for years on
end. Herriman unabashedly took advantage of this, radically
exploring the medium's potential and pushing all of its formal
boundaries; readers had to put up with surreal, Dadaist sceneries,
a language that whirled slang, neologisms, phonetic spelling, and
scholarly references, and diffuse gender roles-making Krazy Kat
probably the first gender-fluid star in comic history. This volume
presents all Krazy Kat color stories from 1935-1944 and a detailed
introduction by comic expert Alexander Braun, who illuminates
Herriman's multi-ethnic background and reveals what makes this
timeless work of art about a queer cat so extraordinary.
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