George Herriman's pen took him far from his childhood home on North Villere Street in Treme. By the time he was in his early 20s, he was a newspaper illustrator, working in New York and Los Angeles ...

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In his home near Hollywood last week, the gentlest, most poetic of U.S. popular artists laid down his pen at last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a ...

Befitting its status as one of the masterworks of comics art, Herriman's Krazy Kat has been reprinted many times over the decades. But this new volume stands out. While most collections focus on the ...

It’s pretty safe to say there’s nothing else like “Krazy Kat.” George Herriman’s odd creation was loved by people as various as Jack Kerouac, Charles Schulz and William Randolph Hearst, who championed ...

It was sheer coincidence that led to the intersecting of reading “Which Language Is the Richest in Words?,” an article from Interpreters & Translators, full-page Inc. by Toni Andrews, followed by an ...

When George Herriman died in 1944, Time magazine called the creator of the popular "Krazy Kat" comic strip "a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness." It might seem strange to use a religious reference ...

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George Herriman lived a life with no labels. Although hailing from African-Creole ancestry, his "light skin" allowed him to pass for white and participate in a society much of African American culture ...

What American visual artist interests you the most? Many people would name Willem de Kooning or another Abstract Expressionist — maybe Joan Mitchell. Others, looking for far-reaching cultural ...