This Eisner Award-nominated series showcases one of the most renowned
and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history as it strides
boldly through the mid-1920s, its quirky characters in full flower in
this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection.
In this volume: Ignatz repeatedly sets elaborate traps for Krazy (long
before the Road Runner), adventures on the "enchanted mesa," wacky
weather, literal cliffhangers -- and what happens when Santa and the
stork arrive at the same chimney at the same moment? BONUS: The most
complete collection of Herriman's long-lost Book of Magic pages ever
assembled.
With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, this entry in our ongoing
series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why
historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic
strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be "the
greatest comic strip of the 20th Century."
Krazy Kat is an ongoing story of a (head-) achingly unrequited love
triangle. Krazy adores Ignatz, who returns that affection by launching
literal bricks at Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to
protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy is genderless) by
tossing Ignatz in the pokey. With this deceptively simple structure,
Herriman builds entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building
thematic depth and sweeping his readers up with the looping verbal and
visual rhythms of his characters' unique dialogue and his loopy,
ever-shifting surrealistic backgrounds.
