Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat was a comic strip created by George Herriman, appearing in weekday and Sunday U.S. newspapers published by William Randolph Hearst. It grew from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, The Dingbat Family, which had started in 1910. Herriman would complete the cartoons about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over from his 8-hour day, filled the bottom of the strip with the slapstick antics of a cat and a mouse. This "basement strip" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon, and became a Sunday-only cartoon on April 23, 1916, and before long also a daily strip. In 1935, the strip began to be printed in color. Herriman continued to draw Krazy Kat until his death in 1944.

Editions

• Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman Abrams This 1986 Herriman retrospective reprints many Krazy Kat strips. ISBN 0810991853 (softcover) ISBN 0810981521 (hardcover)

Eclipse Comics published Komplete Kat Comics in a planned series of reprints in cooperation with Turtle Island Press. The collapse of Eclipse Comics prevented several planned volumes from being published.

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• Krazy & Ignatz 1916 strips
• The Other Side of the Shore From Here 1917 strips
• The Limbo of Useless Unconsciousness 1918 strips
• Howling Along the Halls of Night 1919 strips
• Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere 1920 strips
• Sure As Moons is Cheese 1921 strips
• A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K 1922 strips
• Inna Yott On the Muddy Germanium 1923 strips
• Shed a Soft Mongolian Tear 1924 strips
• Honeysuckil Love is Doubly Swit 1925 strip, unpublished
• At Moonrise by the Old Smoke Tree 1937 color strips, unpublished
• My Sodium Poppa 1938 color strips, unpublished

Kitchen Sink Press published the Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat as a planned series of 7 volumes.

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• 1935-36 ISBN 0924359064
• 1936-37 ISBN 0924359072 limited distribution
• 1938-39 ISBN 0924359080 limited distribution

Fantagraphics Books is currently publishing Krazy Kat reprints in new editions designed by Chris Ware.

Related Topics:
Fantagraphics Books - Chris Ware

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• Krazy & Ignatz in "There Is A Heppy Lend Furfur A-Waay": The Komplete Kat Komics 1925 - 1926 ISBN 1560973862
• Krazy & Ignatz in "Love Letters In Ancient Brick": The Komplete Kat Komics 1927 - 1928 ISBN 1560975075
• Krazy & Ignatz in "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night": The Komplete Kat Komics 1929 - 1930 ISBN 1560975296
• Krazy & Ignatz in "A Kat Alilt with Song": The Komplete Kat Komics 1931 - 1932 ISBN 1560975946
• Krazy & Ignatz in "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush": The Komplete Kat Komics 1933 - 1934 ISBN 1560976209
• Krazy & Ignatz in "A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy": The Komplete Kat Komics 1935 - 1936 ISBN 156097690X (first volume in color)
• Further volumes will reprint the strip to its end in 1944, and then double back to republish the early years of 1916-1924 that have already be reprinted by Eclipse.
• Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925 - 1934. Collects the five paperback volumes 1925-1934 in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, and only available by direct order from the publisher. ISBN unknown.