Krazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd) by George Herriman

Herriman used his work to explore the human condition, creating a modernist fantasia that was inspired by the landscapes he discovered in his travels-from chaotic urban life to the Beckett-like desert vistas of the Southwest. Although fitfully popular with readers of the period, his work has been widely credited with elevating cartoons from daily amusements to anarchic art. Appearing in the biggest newspapers of the early twentieth century-including those owned by William Randolph Hearst-Herriman’s Krazy Kat cartoons quickly propelled him to fame. A native of nineteenth-century New Orleans, George Herriman came of age as an illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist in the boomtown of Los Angeles and the wild metropolis of New York.

The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due-in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America’s color line. In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged-and the deep secret he explored through his art.

Krazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd) by George Herriman