Krazy & Ignatz: Komplete 1933-1934 (KRAZY & IGNATZ (DATE) TP) - Softcover

George Herriman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560976209 ISBN 13: 9781560976202

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2005

Synopsis

Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934 - "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush" is the fifth in a series reprinting George Herriman's early 20th Century comic strip masterpiece. Most of these strips have not seen print since originally running in Hearst newspapers over 70 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard. Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934 is a hot-baked brickbat of a volume, adance with nearly two full years of the Sunday Krazy Kat (Herriman did not use color until 1935), snug between multiple pages of Herriman extras, not the least of which include an introduction by Blackbeard, a new "DeBaffler" page, and a stunning layout front and back and throughout by the inimitable Chris Ware!

About this title

About the Author:

George Herriman (1880-1944), the creator of Krazy Kat, was born in New Orleans and lived most of his life in Los Angeles, California. He is considered by many to be the greatest strip cartoonist of all time.

Bill Blackbeard, the founder-director of the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, is the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips. As a freelance writer, Blackbeard wrote, edited or contributed to more than 200 books on cartoons and comic strips, including The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 100 Years of Comic Strips, and the Krazy & Ignatz series.

From Booklist:

The fifth entry in the series reprinting black-and-white Sunday episodes of the classic strip Krazy Kat contains the last in black-and-white; thereafter, the feature appeared in color, right up to Herriman's death in 1944. Whether monochrome or rainbow-hued, the strip's abiding triangle remained constant for three decades. Indeterminately gendered Krazy wistfully awaits the bricks Ignatz Mouse derisively lobs at her/him, misinterpreting them as signs of the rodent's affection. Only Offissa Pupp, who harbors a yen for the oblivious Kat, stands in the way of the bricks reaching Krazy's cranium. Of course, this simple setup was a vehicle for Herriman's graphical lyricism, fanciful wordplay (after delivering a warning to Ignatz, Offissa Pupp adds, "Let that lay on your mind and hatch"), and poetic profundity. Like its predecessors, this volume is loaded with fascinating and informative extras--pre-Krazy Herriman strips, period newspaper articles about the artist, essays, and annotations--that make it a Criterion DVD of the comics world. Perfectly completing the package, the book is attractively and appropriately designed by present-day comics titan Chris Ware. Gordon Flagg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560976209
• ISBN 13: 9781560976202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Bill Blackbeard, Derya Ataker