George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". the Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944 by Braun, Alexander

George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". the Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944

The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at...
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Author: Alexander Braun
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George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". the Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944 by Braun, Alexander

George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". the Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944

$679.96

George Herriman's "Krazy Kat". the Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944

$679.96
Author: Alexander Braun
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent.

George Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Through his wit, detailed characterization, and visual-verbal creativity, Herriman introduced even the least comically-inclined to the young medium; Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, US President Woodrow Wilson, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, P.G. Wodehouse, Willem de Kooning--all KK fans among many others.

It was thanks to media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, a confirmed fan who gave Herriman carte blanche in his newspapers, that the artist was allowed to freely explore countless absurd and melancholy variations on the theme of unrequited love for years on end. Herriman unabashedly took advantage of this, radically exploring the medium's potential and pushing all of its formal boundaries; readers had to put up with surreal, Dadaist sceneries, a language that whirled slang, neologisms, phonetic spelling, and scholarly references, and diffuse gender roles--making Krazy Kat probably the first gender-fluid star in comic history.

This volume presents all Krazy Kat color stories from 1935-1944 and a detailed introduction by comic expert Alexander Braun, who illuminates Herriman's multi-ethnic background and reveals what makes this timeless work of art about a queer cat so extraordinary.



Author: Alexander Braun
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 07/15/2019
Pages: 632
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 14.40lbs
Size: 19.90h x 13.10w x 3.00d
ISBN: 9783836566360

About the Author
Braun, Alexander: - Visual artist Alexander Braun (born 1966) has received numerous accolades and scholarships, and his work has appeared in several exhibitions. Alongside his independent artistic activities, he studied art history in Bochum and Berlin (his 1998 doctorate thesis was on the work of the American installation artist Robert Gober). Over the past two decades, Braun has compiled one of the most extensive collections on the history of comics. Since 2008, he has curated several museum exhibits on this topic, including a comprehensive retrospective on the work of Winsor McCay in 2012/2013. In 2011, he founded the German Academy of Comic Art.

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