One of the biggest regrets of my life: Not buying this huge Krazy Kat book at Book Warehouse in the outlet mall about 15 years ago. We'd go there and I'd read as much of it as I could, but I never thought to ask for it since it was like $30.
One of the truly great strips of all time. Of added interest is that it was perhaps the first syndicated comic strip by a person of color (nobody knew that at the time, though, as Herriman was passing for white).
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Anyone else a fan of this wonderful piece of comic art? (People ranging from Gilbert Seldes to Craig Mc Cracken are apparently fans.)
I am. It's terrific surrealism, not Pythonesque surrealism, but Daliesque surrealism! It's imaginative, artsy... I can go on.
Apparently it received an Animated Adaptation in 1963 as part of a series including Beetle Bailey and Snuffy Smith. Why, I don't know - the strip had been over for nearly two decades at the time and it was never particularly popular - but from the looks of it it is highly accurate to the strip.
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"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
I've come across a few samples of Krazy Kat, and it is certainly different from most comic strips.
Funetik Aksent pops up to an insane degree. I bet most editors these days would never let a cartoonist get away with such a thing.
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse remind me of Tom And Jerry. Of course, there are some big differences between those pairs!
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