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See George Herriman's cartoon “Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus” from “Krazy Kat” series

Have a glance at George Herriman's “Krazy Kat-Bugologist” cartoon

See George Herriman's cartoon “Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing” from “Krazy Kat” series

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Krazy Kat

work by Herriman

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creation by Herriman

In comic strip: The United States
upon slapstick, but George Herriman’s Krazy Kat (1911–44) placed the slapstick in a tender world of poetry, at once surreal and humorous. Drawn with the greatest of graphic economy, it presented the absurd interrelationships of a tiny cast of characters (basically three), using the thinnest imaginable plot line. Krazy Kat…
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discussed in biography

In George Herriman
…an American cartoonist who created Krazy Kat, a comic strip whose originality in terms of fantasy, drawing, and dialogue was of such high order that many consider it the finest strip ever produced.
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