Tag: Krazy Kat

Before the world met a mouse named Mickey or a feline named Felix, there was Krazy Kat and his pals Ignatz Mouse and Offissa Pupp. Abrams ComicsArts celebrates the pioneering feline and its creator with the just-published, 176-page book “Krazy Kat and the Art of George Herriman.” “It’s a love letter to George Herriman,” said editor Craig Yoe, a longtime fan whose entire living room is adorned in Herriman motif. “I considered him the No. 1 artist of all time, way ahead of No. 2, Winsor McCay [of 'Little Nemo' fame] and No. 3, Milt Gross.” Krazy Kat was created in 1910 as a spinoff of Herriman’s syndicated “The Dingbat Family,” when he added a small horizontal panel across the bottom of the strip introducing the cat and mouse frenemies. It became of one of the most popular strips in ...