100 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK in…
George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat“
~ A weekly F.A.S.T. reading of 100-year-old daily strips!
Co-Hosted by Marek Bennett & Rev. Kurt Shaffert, with occasional Special Guests… ~
Episodes so far:
Germ Theory: “What Is the Brick?” (Krazy Chat / 12 May 1920)
Featuring special guest MK Czerwiec (a.k.a. Comic Nurse)!
“This Is (Not) a (China) Egg” (Krazy Chat / 6 May 1920)
Immigration, Fake News, & White-Mouse-on-Black-Cat Violence in Coconino County, 1920
“Lovely, Dark, & Deep” (Gospel of Krazy Book ’20 Ch.4:29)
A close, quick reading of secrets hidden in a 100-year-old strip!
{Mebbe more videos comin’ soon-ish?}
REFERENCE LINKS:
Archives:
- Krazy Kat @ Wikipedia
- George Herriman @ Wikipedia
- George Herriman @ ComicStripLibrary.org
- Krazy Kat strips @ ComicBookPlus.com
- Public Domain KRAZY KAT Strips
Articles:
- DeconstructingComics.com #369. “Krazy Kat”: Show me the bricks
- “Krazy Kat: It Started with a Brick” (Tom Lennon)
- “To Walk in Beauty” (Chris Ware, NY Review of Books)
- “Invisibly Black: A Life of George Herriman, Creator of ‘Krazy Kat’” (NYTimes Book Review)
- The New Yorker: “The Gender Fluidity of Krazy Kat” (Gabrielle Bellot)
- A “Konversation” with George Herriman’s Biographer, Michael Tisserand (PART 1) (The Comics Journal)
- “Examining the Secret Life of George Herriman: the Crazy Cat Behind ‘Krazy Kat’” (DinnerPartyDownload.org)
Also:
Michael Tisserand: “Krazy Kat and the Poetics of Passing”
AND: Michael Tisserand on the origins of Krazy Kat (Open Stacks Podcast)
