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BONUS: The most complete collection of Herriman's long-lost Book of Magic pages ever assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith incisive essays by Herriman scholars, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be \"the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century.\" Krazy Kat is an ongoing story of a (head-) achingly unrequited love triangle. Krazy adores Ignatz, who returns that affection by launching literal bricks at Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to protect \"her\" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy is genderless) by tossing Ignatz in the pokey. With this deceptively simple structure, Herriman builds entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up with the looping verbal and visual rhythms of his characters' unique dialogue and his loopy, ever-shifting surrealistic backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Fantagraphics, part of the The George Herriman Library series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor several decades in the 20th century, George Herriman’s hilarious and poetic comic strips graced the pages of America’s newspapers. His best known work, Krazy Kat, is widely considered to have elevated the medium into a celebrated art form and influenced generations of cartoonists to come. The George Herriman Library compiles the entirety of Krazy Kat, as well as many of Herriman’s lesser-known treasures, in deluxe hardcover editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e228 pages. 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What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? What's with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum Bill Bee take him? 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Measures 11.3\" × 13.8\" inches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the exhibition \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrm.org\/2026\/09\/george-herriman-krazy-kat-and-the-path-to-calvin-and-hobbes\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 97, 113);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorge Herriman, Krazy Kat, and the Path to Calvin and Hobbes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eon view November 14, 2026 to May 31, 2027 at Norman Rockwell Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64337115840881,"sku":"BOHI20017","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0873\/3710\/7773\/files\/3cdbbda3-8c19-49fd-ad98-e8597b4fb942.jpg?v=1790714296"},{"product_id":"looking-for-calvin-and-hobbes-the-unconventional-story-of-bill-watterson-and-his-revolutionary-comic-strip","title":"Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor ten years, \u003cem\u003eCalvin and Hobbes\u003c\/em\u003e was one the world's most beloved comic strips. 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Krazy, a free-spirited, gender-fluid feline (sometimes referred to as he, sometimes she, sometimes both in the same strip), pines for Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz scorns Krazy's affection, frequently lobbing bricks at the hapless cat — much to the indignation of Officer Pupp, a nightstick-wielding canine. The outlandish dramas play out in devilishly witty dialogue, delivered against a surrealistic desert backdrop. The antics of this extraordinary threesome entertained readers for decades, and The New York Times recently deemed the ahead-of-their-time comic strips \"as entrancing today as when George Herriman wrote and drew them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compilation presents choice strips dating from the years 1918 and 1919 of the long-running series. A perennial favorite of artists and intellectuals, it appeared in newspapers until 1944. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was such a fan that he gave Herriman a lifelong contract with King Features Syndicate. The cartoon's other devotees ranged from Woodrow Wilson to Dr. Seuss, and Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz declared, \"I always thought if I could do something as good as Krazy Kat, I would be happy. Krazy Kat was always my goal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the artwork is poetic, so is the writing's unique 'texture,' which comes in large part through the conglomeration of peculiar spellings and punctuations, dialects, interminglings of Spanish, phonetic renderings, and alliterations. Krazy Kat's Coconino County not only had a look; it had a sound as well. Slightly foreign, but uncontrived.\" — Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 112 pages. 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