Word: herriman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Herriman's [famed comic-strip character] Krazy Kat once demonstrated, to an astonished duck, the same hat-making possibilities of the tortilla...
Love That Kat. Waugh agrees with many a highbrow in thinking that the greatest of all comic strips was the late George Herriman's Krazy Kat, a gentle, loving soul constantly tormented by her great love, Ignatz Mouse, whose joy in life was to "krease his [Kat's] bean" with a brick. Some partisans saw the Kat and Mouse as latter-day versions of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Poet E. E. Cummings found Krazy's faithfulness a vindication of the principle of love...
Your article on George Herriman (TIME, May 8) is a fine tribute to a man who in his chosen field had no peer...
...Herriman was first and foremost an imaginative artist whose charming and sometimes delightfully wacky comedy . . . symbolized a kind of reality one could not escape. Even when Herriman propagandized ... he was unique and wholly captivating: the introduction into his strip of a lonesome dogie who complained of "Old Sir Taxy-Waxy" and all he did to him at the time Hearst so loudly complained of taxation in California...
Small wonder Herriman had no understudy; no one could replace...