num_pages: 176
description: As Fantagraphics ambitious plan to reprint every single Sunday Krazy Kat page created by George Herriman for close to three decades (this being the penultimate book) careens toward the finish line this volume features another three years worth of Sunday stripsover 150 little masterpieces by the greatest cartoonist of all time featuring the greatest comic-strip love tri- angle of all time: kat mice and pupp.Each page is a hilarious poetic masterpiece crackling with verbal wit and graphic brilliance. Those were the days...!In the introductory essay editor Bill Blackbeard chronicles Krazy Kats ascent from its earliest days as a tiny pendant for Herrimans earlier strips The Dingbat Family and The Family upstairs to its own full feature. A second major article in this volume is Bob Callahans Geo. Herrimans Los Angeles a fascinating look at Herrimans pre-Krazy Kat days as a journalist/illustrator covering such things as a Mexican bullfight (Herriman was appalled) the opening of a new bums jail (Herrimans sympathies were clearly with the vagrants) and UFO sightingsall accompanied by Herrimans virtuoso cartoons of course.As usual the cover is designed by Chris Ware featuring a striking two-color look that will set this latest volume apart from the previous eleven.
language: English
title: Krazy and Ignatz, 1919-1921: A Kind, Benevolent, and Amiable Brick
publisher: Fantagraphics Books