{"product_id":"krazy-kat-collection-selected-sunday-strips-1918-1919-9780486838403","title":"Krazy Kat Collection: Selected Sunday Strips 1918-1919","description":"In a comic strip of this sort, the spectator, not seduced by a flood of gags, or by any realistic or caricatural reference, or by any appeal to sex and violence, could discover the possibility of a purely allusive world, a pleasure of a 'musical' nature, an interplay of feelings that were not banal. -- Umberto Eco \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed as the most creative comic strip of all time, \u003ci\u003eKrazy Kat \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a witty, raucous, and poetic portrayal of a love triangle between a mouse, a cat, and a dog. Krazy, a free-spirited, gender-fluid feline (sometimes referred to as he, sometimes she, sometimes both in the same strip), pines for Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz scorns Krazy's affection, frequently lobbing bricks at the hapless cat -- much to the indignation of Officer Pupp, a nightstick-wielding canine. The outlandish dramas play out in devilishly witty dialogue, delivered against a surrealistic desert backdrop. The antics of this extraordinary threesome entertained readers for decades, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003erecently deemed the ahead-of-their-time comic strips as entrancing today as when George Herriman wrote and drew them.\u003cbr\u003eThis compilation presents choice strips dating from the years 1918 and 1919 of the long-running series. A perennial favorite of artists and intellectuals, it appeared in newspapers until 1944. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was such a fan that he gave Herriman a lifelong contract with King Features Syndicate. The cartoon's other devotees ranged from Woodrow Wilson to Dr. Seuss, and \u003ci\u003ePeanuts \u003c\/i\u003ecreator Charles M. Schulz declared, I always thought if I could do something as good as \u003ci\u003eKrazy Kat, \u003c\/i\u003e I would be happy. \u003ci\u003eKrazy Kat \u003c\/i\u003ewas always my goal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLet's make no mistake about Krazy. A lot of people 'love' because, and a lot of people 'love' although, and a few individuals love. Love is something illimitable; and a lot of people spend their limited lives trying to prevent anything illimitable from happening to them. Krazy, however, is not a lot of people. Krazy is herself. Krazy is illimitable -- she loves. -- e. e. cummings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the artwork is poetic, so is the writing's unique 'texture, ' which comes in large part through the conglomeration of peculiar spellings and punctuations, dialects, interminglings of Spanish, phonetic renderings, and alliterations. Krazy Kat's Coconino County not only had a look; it had a sound as well. Slightly foreign, but uncontrived. -- Bill Watterson, creator of \u003ci\u003eCalvin and Hobbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486838403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.90h x 9.00w x 0.20d","brand":"George Herriman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42406076285109,"sku":"9780486838403","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_446369d3-c013-406b-b896-0fbd986ea591.jpg?v=1664285994","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/krazy-kat-collection-selected-sunday-strips-1918-1919-9780486838403","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}