Synopses & Reviews
When Fantagraphics launched its collection of Sunday strips back in 2002, we picked up with the 10th and 11th years of the legendary strip (1925-1926) because another publisher had already collected the first nine during the 1980s and 1990s. But now, with that publisher long gone and their collections fetching record prices (some over $100!) among collectors, it's time to go back and get every one of these comic-strip masterpieces back into print--re-scanned and re-retouched from original tearsheets, using 21st century digital resources. Fantagraphics will be collecting these first nine years of Sundays into three volumes comprising three years apiece, starting with this volume: the very first Sundays from 1916 through 1918, and incorporating all the original articles and special features from the first edition, including rare art, series editor Bill Blackbeard's definitive historical overview "The Kat's Kreation," and updated and expanded "DeBaffler" endnotes explaining some of the arcana behind the strip's jokes. , with its eternally beguiling love triangle of kat/dog/mouse, its fantastically inventive language, and its haunting, minimalist desert décor, has consistently been rated the best comic strip ever created, and Fantagraphics' award-winning series one of the best classic comic-strip reprint series ever published. , the 11th of a projected 13 volumes collecting the entirety of the Sundays, brings us within a brick's throw of finishing "The Komplete Kat Sundays" once and for all!
Review
"At this point, no one should need any convincing that is one of the greatest works of comic art ever created, and that it should form the foundation of any good collection. All that's needed is the knowledge of where to start and what format to choose. With that in mind, Fantagraphics has outdone itself with ... Herriman's work probably hasn't looked this good since it first appeared in newspapers more than 90 years ago. ... [
Review
"Endlessly perplexing, energetic, deep, and playful." Sarah Boxer
Review
"Don't read because it's good for you. Read it because it is you, an American being, immigrant infused, with a light-hearted sense of infinite promise. Herriman's art, word and line, is so damn deep, so damn wonderful and so damnably us." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Review
George Herriman was one of the very great artists, in any medium, of the 20th century. --Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Synopsis
Fantagraphics will be collecting these first nine years of Sundays into three volumes comprising three years apiece, starting with this volume: the very first Sundays from 1916 through 1918, and incorporating all the original articles and special features from the first edition, including rare art, series editor Bill Blackbeard s definitive historical overview The Kat s Kreation, and updated and expanded DeBaffler endnotes explaining some of the arcana behind the strip s jokes Krazy Kat, with its eternally beguiling love triangle of kat/dog/mouse, its fantastically inventive language, and its haunting, minimalist desert decor, has consistently been rated the best comic strip ever created, and Fantagraphics award-winning series one of the best classic comic-strip reprint series ever published. Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918, the 11th of a projected 13 volumes collecting the entirety of the Sundays, brings us within a brick s throw of finishing The Komplete Kat Sundays once and for all "
Synopsis
The most acclaimed comic strip of all-time!
About the Author
George Herriman (1880-1944), the creator of Krazy Kat, was born in New Orleans and lived most of his life in Los Angeles, California. He is considered by many to be the greatest strip cartoonist of all time.Bill Blackbeard, the founder-director of the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, is the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips. As a freelance writer, Blackbeard wrote, edited or contributed to more than 200 books on cartoons and comic strips, including The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 100 Years of Comic Strips, and the Krazy & Ignatz series.