According to the Toonopedia (found on Xblog's site which Trip posted about below), tomorrow is the 92nd anniversary of the first brick thrown at Krazy Kat by Ignatz Mouse. If you've never seen Krazy, I highly recommend you pick up a copy -- it is absolutely transcendant.
Herriman was black -- he was a Creole from NOLA, which may have informed the extraorinary patois spoken in Coconino County -- and you can read more about him and other pioneering cartoonists of color.
| Krazy Kat | Race & Ethnicity | Cats | George Herriman |
92 is kind of an odd anniversary to get jazzed about, but anything that brings Krazy Kat to center stage is good w/me.
Now, if we could only generate some enthusiasm out there for Walt Kelly's Pogo...
Very interesting. I'd never heard of Herriman before.
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