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KRAZY IGNATZ by GEORGE HERRIMAN
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Krazy and Ignatz 1925-1926: "here Is A Happy Lend Furfur A-Waay"
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
Designed by Chris Ware, Introduction by Bill Blackbeard
Fantagraphics is proud to re-present Krazy Kat to a new generation of readers, collecting what many
consider to be Herriman's prime: all 104 full-page, B&W Sunday strips from 1925 and 1926 (Herriman
did not incorporate color into the strip until 1935).
Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationship of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored
Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerated Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence,
which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loved Krazy and
sought to protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was genderless), mostly by throwing
Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the other's true motivations. This simple structure
allowed Herriman (1881-1944) to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic
depth that led critics like Gilbert Seldes and e.e. cummings to recognize Herriman's genius almost
immediately.
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Krazy and Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick"
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
Edited by Bill Blackbeard and designed by cartoonist Chris Ware, this second softcover volume, clocking
in at 112 pages, finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the
constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare photos of
Herriman, rare art (including a strip by Popeye creator E.C. Segar which uses Herriman's stork to
announce the birth of his child), and the usual stunning design work by Ware.
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Krazy and Ignatz 1929-1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night"
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
This volume is the third in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of
Krazy Kat’s breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in
newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art
Museum’s Bill Blackbeard, the world’s foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips,
and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware, who may well go down as the best cartoonist of
the 21st Century.
In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not
use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare
Herriman ephemera from Ware’s own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by
Ware and Blackbeard. Of special note to collectors, this is the period when Herriman was again
liberated from the “grid” constraints of the mid-’20s and was able to compose his pages far more
creatively, resulting in richer, more complex, more eye-pleasing compositions.
Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationships of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored
Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerated Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence,
which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy’s cranium. Offisa Pup loved Krazy and
sought to protect “her” (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was gender-less) by throwing Ignatz in
jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the others’ true motivations, and this simple structure
allowed Herriman to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and
sweeping his readers up by the looping verbal rhythms of Krazy & Co.’s unique dialogue.
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Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932: A Kat Alilt with Song
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932 is one hot-baked brickbat of a volume, adance with two full years of the Sunday
Krazy Kat (Herriman did not use color until 1935), snug between multiple pages of Herriman extras,
including two premiere appearances of Krazy from 1909, never before reprinted; a sports page
panorama of graphic fun with the French boxing champion, Georges Carpentier; two extremely frank daily
strip revelations about Krazy’s dubious gender; several gag cartoons from the early days of the last
century; vignettes of the Coconino Kast of Kharacters drawn for Kat fans; and a first-time-ever reprint of
Gilbert Seldes’ second article on Krazy, written in 1935 for Esquire, two decades after his seminal piece
in The Seven Lively Arts, with komments by Bill Blackbeard; plus an introduction by Blackbeard detailing
the miraculous recovery of many of the Sunday pages in this volume from apparent newspaper oblivion,
a new Debaffler page, and a stunning layout front and back and throughout by the inimitable Chris Ware!
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Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934: Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
This 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 will be 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!
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Krazy & Ignatz 1935-1936: A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy
2004 Eisner Award Winner - Best Archival Collection/Project
By George Herriman; designed by Chris Ware; edited by Bill Blackbeard
This volume includes all the Sunday strips from the latter half of 1935 and all of 1936, including one
supremely rare instance of a page shot from an original syndicate proof sheet, all reproduced in
sparkling, digitally cleaned-up color. Iincludes a color self-portrait by Herriman, several Kat watercolors,
watercolored non-Krazy Kat material, a period spoof of Krazy Kat by Minute Movies' Ed Wheelan, and a
revelatory essay that addresses Herriman's racial origins. 120 PGS.
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