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The Kat Who Walked In Beauty collects many rare and unique dailies from the 1910's and 1920's. This nine-month stretch of dailies, never-before-reprinted, is among the treasures included in this collection. The collection includes many other Herriman gems, including the very first stand-alone Krazy & Ignatz strips from 1911, and the illustrations from Herriman's Krazy Kat Jazz pantomime/ballet, performed to captivated New York audiences in 1922. This book fills in several gaps in the daily strip history, reproduced at close to their original size. [George Herriman]
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 strips - over 150 little masterpieces by the greatest cartoonist of all time, featuring the greatest comic-strip love triangle 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 Kat's ascent from its earliest days as a tiny pendant for Herriman's earlier strips ''The Dingbat Family'' and ''The Family upstairs'' to its own full feature. A second major article in this volume is Bob Callahan's ''Geo. Herriman's Los Angeles,'' a fascinating look at Herriman's pre-Krazy Kat days as journalist/illustrator, covering such things as a Mexican bullfight (Herriman was appalled), the opening of a new ''bums' jail'' (Herriman's sympathies were clearly with the vagrants), and UFO sightings - all accompanied by Herriman's 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.
by George Herriman / SC / 216 pgs / PC / 9 x 12 With our 13th volume, the award-winning project of publishing every single Krazy Kat Sunday created by Herriman comes to a close. With its fantastically inventive language and haunting desert decor, Krazy Kat has been rated the best comic strip ever created. The book includes 10 rare full-color strips, a ''DeBaffling'' section explaining period references and in-jokes, a selection of recently-unearthed samples of Herriman's very first published comic strip, and the entire full run of the never-beforecollected 1920s full-color Us Husbands strip. And as with the previous 12 volumes, Chris Ware has provided the superb covers.
We can't keep these collections in print! Each volume includes two years of Herriman's masterpiece - black-and-white for 1925-26 and 1933-34, color for 1935-36 - plus Herriman goodies galore! [George Herriman; Designed by Chris Ware]
KRAZY & IGNATZ 1939-1940: BRICK STUFFED WITH MOOMBINS GN - (George Herman) Designed by Chris Ware and edited by Bill Blackbeard. Includes the Sunday strips from all of 1939 and 1940. The color format opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular, rare color art. Included are an unpublished Herriman painting from the 1920s and other surprises. 120 pp. (9x12)
Krazy and Ignatz 1943-1944 covers the last two years of Herriman's master-piece. With this volume, Fantagraphics and its precursor Eclipse will have reprinted the entire 29-year run of the Krazy Kat Sundays! Like Charles Schulz, George Herriman was a cartoonist to the very end. Aside from collecting the last masterful year and a half of "Krazy Kat," this new volume will offer a retrospective look at Herriman's life at the drawing table, offering many never before seen samples of his original art (which the cartoonist often lovingly hand-colored for friends). Gathered from many scattered collections, these pages testify to Herriman's invererate passion for drawing. Rounding out the volume are scores of Krazy Kat daily strips also from Herriman's last years, further testament to the cartoonists vitality. Series editor and veteran comics historian, Bill Blackbeard, also provides a concluding, wide-ranging essay on the life and art of Herriman. More than a simple reprint collection, Krazy and Ignatz 1943-1944 portrays the full range of a cartoonist who remained an artist all his life. [George Herriman; Designed Chris Ware]
(W/A) George Herriman Finally! Looping back to the very beginning, Fantagraphics releases its third (but chronologically first) hardcover omnibus collection of George Herriman's Sunday Krazy Kat strips, nine years' worth of black-and-white masterpieces (and 10 color strips), with as a special bonus the full run of the never-before-collected 1920s full-color Us Husbands strip. Available only in limited quantities, never to be reprinted!
This, the third color volume in Fantagraphics' Krazy & Ignatz reprint series, includes all the Sunday strips from 1941 and 1942, with most of these strips not having seen print since originally running in Hearst newspapers over 70 years ago. Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationships of its three main characters: Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Offisa Pup. Critic Jeet Heer contributes an essay about the friendship between Herriman and John and Louisa Wetherill, who ran a trading post in Monument Valley where Herriman often visited. It was through the Wetherills that Herriman absorbed much of his knowledge about Native American culture, specifically Navajo, which made its way into Krazy Kat. [George Herriman]
KRAZY & IGNATZ 1935-1936: A WILD WARMTH OF CHROMATIC GRAVY SC - (George Herriman/Chris Ware/Bill Blackbeard) Includes all the Sunday strips from the latter half of 1935 and all of 1936, including one rare instance of a page shot from an original syndicate proof sheet, all reproduced in digitally cleaned-up color. Includes a color self-portrait by Herriman, several Kat watercolors, water colored non-Krazy Kat material, a period spoof of Krazy Kat by Ed Wheelan, and an essay that addresses Herriman's racial origins. 120 pp. (9x12)
KRAZY & IGNATZ 1929-1930: A MICE, A BRICK, A LOVELY NIGHT SC – B&W. (George Herriman) The third chronological reprinting of strips from the prime of Herriman's career. Includes an introduction by Bill Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Chris Ware's extensive collection, as well as notes by Ware and Blackbeard. 120 pp.
KRAZY & IGNATZ 1933-1934: NECROMANCY BY THE BLUE BEAN BUSH SC – B&W. (Bill Blackbeard & Derya Ataker, eds.) The fifth in a series reprinting George Herriman’s early 20th Century comic strip masterpiece. 1933-1934 (the last of the black-and-white Sundays) is a notably elusive era in Kat history, with only a tiny handful of the Sundays ever having been reprinted anywhere. 120 pp. (9x12).
George Herriman (w & a) Krazy Kat's most surreal adventures were the famed ""Tiger Tea"" sequence where Krazy Kat imbibed a psychedelia-inducing substance. This is George Herriman at his best in the only full-length Krazy Kat adventure story of his career presented in the same era as Terry and the Pirates and Captain Easy. Krazy & Ignatz in Tiger Tea showcases a rare photo of Herriman sporting a Mexican sombrero and smoking a funny looking cigarette, a perfect addition to this fun, classic trip down memory lane.
When Fantagraphics launched its collection of Krazy Kat Sunday strips back in 2002, we picked up with the 10th and 11th years of the legendary strip (1925-1926) because another publisher had already collected the first nine during the 1980s and 1990s. But now, with that publisher long gone and their Krazy Kat collections fetching record prices (some over 100!) among collectors, it's time to go back and get every one of these masterpieces back in print - re-scanned and re-retouched from original tearsheets, using 21st century digital resources. Fantagraphics will be collecting these first nine years of Sundays into three volumes comprising three years apiece, starting with the very first Sundays from 1916 through 1918, and incorporating all the added features from the first edition. Krazy Kat, with its eternally beguiling love triangle of kat/dog/mouse, its fantastically inventive language, and its haunting, minimalist desert décor, has consistently been rated the best comic strip ever created. Krazy and Ignatz 1916-1918, the 11th of a projected 13 volumes collecting the entirety of the Sundays, brings us within a brick's throw of finishing ''The Komplete Kat Sundays'' once and for all!
Introducing a new series that will reprint early daily newspaper strips that are essential to the history of comics. Each volume will contain a full year of dailies. By reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the experience of reading the comics one day at a time. The inaugural volume of Library of American Comics Essentials features Baron Bean by one of the greatest of all comic strip stars: George Herriman. The creator of Krazy Kat drew Baron Bean for three years, beginning in 1916. Included in this volume is the first year. Two additional books will complete the series. Future LOAC Essentials titles include The Gumps and Polly and Her Pals. [(W/A/CA) George Herriman]
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