| 1. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman | 
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By: Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley de Havenon
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
September 01, 2004
KRAZY KAT is one of those comic strips which have received so much praise through the years that I imagine it to be often quite a task for a newcomer to begin an aqcuaintance with an open mind. I was introduced to the strip in a rather unceremonious manner; at ten, I found a book with a cover of some funny-looking animals at a used bookstore and gave it a go. I knew nothing about the strip on beforehand... more
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| 2. Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman, Chris Ware, Bill Blackbeard
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
2002-12
The best thing ever to hit the eyes is the Krazy Kat entourage a la George Herriman. With the most surrealistic spelling and the most endearing characters in a love triangle (Krazy, Ignatz, and Offisa Pupp), one can find relief from the drabness and the pressures of life. (Was that a brick that just went by?)... more
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| 3. Krazy and Ignatz, 1943-1944: "He Nods in Quiescent Siesta" (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
October 08, 2008
With this volume, Herriman's great comic-strip opus (the full-page version of it, anyway) grinds to a somewhat weary, but nonetheless ingenious-to-the-end, halt. Herriman died of a liver ailment in April 1944, and the final full-page strip (the original of which I've seen in Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore) appeared on June 25 of that same year. As Bill Blackbeard points out in a brief foreword... more
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| 4. Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: Shifting Sands Dusts Its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
May 31, 2006
Over the recent years, I have become a fan of "old-time" comic strips, those that were published in the first half of the 1900s. In that era, the newspaper comics were a far different medium than nowadays. While I am sure there are plenty of forgotten, forgettable strips from that era, on the whole, the comics were treated as a respectable part of the newspaper and in an age when cities often had... more
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| 5. Peregrinating the Highway of Dreams: the kompleat public domain Krazy Kat sunday strips 1916 - 1922 | 
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: lulu.com
August 27, 2009
A nice, big collection of Herriman's earliest (and in my opinion, best) Krazy Kat Sunday strips. It's nice to have all these strips together in one place. My congratulations to the self-publisher who put the book together (it is also available as a download from [...]). However, the book looks like it's been scanned. Lines and blacks which should be dark and strong are reproduced often as a series... more
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| 6. Krazy & Ignatz 1935-1936: "A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy" (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman, Bill Blackbeard, Chris Ware
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
October 31, 2005
Krazy and Ignatz are unique in the history of the comics and highlight the Golden Age when "Little Nemo," "Maggie and Jiggs," and "The Yellow Kid" were right up there with this strip, George Harriman's salute to wit, whimsy, and the English language. Did I mention Jewish and Italian dialects from New York City? Anyhow, language and imagination all worked together in a desert landscape with Turner skies... more
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| 7. Krazy & Ignatz, 1941-1942: "A Ragout of Raspberries" (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
February 13, 2008
In today's newspaper comics, mediocrity rules. Yes, there are a few good or even great strips out there, but the majority are at best bland and are often worse than that. Newspapers play it safe with comics that have become institutions passed on to new artists as the old ones die, but there is little good that comes out of a Marmaduke, Dennis the Menace or Heathcliff.
Of course, if... more
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| 8. Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration | |
By: Craig Yoe
Publisher: Abrams ComicArts
October 01, 2010
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| 9. Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934: "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush" (Krazy Kat) | 
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
December 29, 2004
I have nothing to add to the praise for Herriman's marvelous creation, which you can read about in the comments below. Anything I'd say to that effect would only echo what has already been written.
Alas, the 1933-1934 volume in the Fantagraphics release has some problems. It has nothing to do with a dropoff in the humor of the strip itself -- there was none, as "Krazy Kat" never experienced... more
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| 10. Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night" (Krazy Kat) |
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By: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
2003-05
Krazy and Ignatz are always fun to read. Herriman's artistic and literary genius shine through. If a person has never read a Krazy Kat compilation, this one is a great one to begin the journey to Cococino County... more
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