Krazy Kat

"Krazy Kat, originally created by George Herriman "to fill up the waste space" below another cartoon, became a comic strip in it's own right in 1913, making it's debut in William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal. For thirty-one years, until Herriman's death in 1944, the Kat and her tireless tormentor, Ignatz Mouse, counted among their fans some of the leading writers, artists, composers, and intellectuals of the time. Krazy Kat staring one of the first cartoon cats, has risen from it's humble beginnings to be considered a work of art that transcends it's comic page origins ... The authors have collected over one hundred and fifty comic strips for this book, most of them original drawings. Forty-eight of the Krazy Kat Sunday color cartoons are reproduced here, some of them hand-colored by the artist, as well as never-before-published drawings, archival photographs, and personal letters. A selected bibliography and a chronology provide further background information not previously available."--Book Jacket.