LOAC Essentials Presents King Features Volume 1: Krazy Kat

LOAC Essentials Presents King Features Volume 1: Krazy Kat 1934

Much attention has been paid to Herrrimanâ€™s Sunday full-page comics, yet it is in the daily Krazy Kat strips that the cartoonist most frankly illustrates many of his major themes, especially the shifting nature of social identity.

The 1934 strips reprinted in this book fit anyoneâ€™s definition of â€œessential.â€ They show Krazy Kat at top speed, ever-changing, endlessly inventive, with language that sparkles with double meanings, and more, in lines such as â€œhis malady drills me to my sole.â€

The year includes homages to old jokes and bricks, followed by playful references to sex, drink, and even drugs. The daily Krazy Kat strips are often Herrimanâ€™s most personal works and standouts in this year include Krazy Katâ€™s attempt to write a memoir and the Katâ€™s quietly waiting for the last leaf of â€œottimâ€ to fall (a tender scene that finds echoes in Charles Schulzâ€™s drawing Linus admiring the last autumâ€™s leaf stubborn spirit). It could also be argued that the daily is more accessible to the new reader. Herriman biographer Michael Tisserand provides an insightful introduction.

LOAC ESSENTIALS reprints, in yearly volumes, the early daily newspaper strips that are essential to comics history, seminal strips that are unique creations in their own right, while also significantly contributing to the advancement of the medium. The strips are reproduced one per page, giving readers an immersive experience, similar to the one newspapers readers had may decades agoâ€•reading the comics one day at a time.
Country USA
Brand IDW
Manufacturer IDW Publishing
Binding Hardcover
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2016-08-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781631404085

Country	USA
Brand	IDW
Manufacturer	IDW Publishing
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2016-08-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781631404085

LOAC Essentials Presents King Features Volume 1: Krazy Kat 1934

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