Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007
His Inner Cat
By Sarah Boxer
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS REVIEW
Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Full-Page Comic Strips
by George Herriman, edited and annotated by Bill Blackbeard, designed by Chris Ware
Fantagraphics, multiple volumes,$14.95–$19.95 each (paper)
Masters of American Comics
exhibition catalog edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker
Hammer Museum/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Yale University Press, 328 pp., $45.00
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester
University Press of Mississippi, 176 pp., $22.00 (paper)
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley De Havenon
Abrams, 224 pp., $19.95
George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat is its own country. The borders are forbidding and you have to accustom yourself slowly to its landscape and its lingo. But once you're in, there's no looking back. You can't imagine a world without Krazy Kat, and it is almost impossible to tell outsiders what it is like. Fans of the strip often end up going native, speaking like Krazy—with lots of Ks and a strange accent—as if that explained everything. It's a heppy, heppy lend.
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