KRAZY KAT! The legendary comic strip that inspired hundreds of artists and cartoonists. Chuck Jones's Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, set in a similar visual pastiche of the American Southwest, are among the most famous cartoons to draw upon Herriman's work.Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame named Krazy Kat one of his major artistic influences.
Simple-minded, curious, mindlessly happy and perpetually innocent, the strip's title character drifts through life in Coconino County without a care.Often singing and dancing to express the Kat's eternal joy, Krazy is hopelessly in love with Ignatz and thinks that the mouse's brick-tossing is his way of returning that love.
In 1999, Krazy Kat was rated #1 in a Comics Journal list of the best American comics of the 20th century; the list included both comic books and comic strips. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps.
KRAZY KAT! The legendary comic strip that inspired hundreds of artists and cartoonists. Chuck Jones's Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, set in a similar visual pastiche of the American Southwest, are among the most famous cartoons to draw upon Herriman's work.Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame named Krazy Kat one of his major artistic influences.
Simple-minded, curious, mindlessly happy and perpetually innocent, the strip's title character drifts through life in Coconino County without a care.Often singing and dancing to express the Kat's eternal joy, Krazy is hopelessly in love with Ignatz and thinks that the mouse's brick-tossing is his way of returning that love.
In 1999, Krazy Kat was rated #1 in a Comics Journal list of the best American comics of the 20th century; the list included both comic books and comic strips. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps.