George Herriman. Krazy Kat. The Complete Color Sundays wer. angielska

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&nbsp legendary newspaper strip&nbsp Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Through his&nbsp wit,&nbsp detailed characterization,&nbsp 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&nbsp KK&nbsp fans among many others.

It was thanks to media tycoon&nbsp William Randolph Hearst, a confirmed fan who gave Herriman&nbsp carte blanche&nbsp 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&nbsp surreal, Dadaist sceneries, a language that whirled slang, neologisms, phonetic spelling, and scholarly references, and diffuse gender roles—making Krazy Kat probably&nbsp the first gender-fluid star in comic history.

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