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...Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
...introduction to this book, terms Crumb "the illegitimate offspring of Krazy Kat." George Herriman's great comic strip of the twenties wasn't centered around a philosophy of life, either. Its fantasy world was akin to Crumb's: the hopeless romantic (Krazy Kat), the skeptic who rejects her love (Ignatz Mouse), and, above both, the defender of society and justice (Offisa...
...antidote of sophisticated wit, and all the modern humor strips are in its debt. George Herriman's Krazy Kat, which ran from 1910 until its creator's death in 1944, rarely strayed from the established routine: Krazy, a thwarted idealist like Charlie Brown, loves the mouse Ignatz, but Ignatz is so incensed at this unnatural love from a cat that he hurls a brick at her; whereupon he is carted off to jail by the guardian of law and order, Offissa Pupp. Herriman injected so much poetry into his guileless strip that it was regarded by many...
...living things, and involving social as well as medical sciences, it has focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty of internal medicine, but is not yet recognized as a fully distinct specialty-and many geriatricians think it never should...
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...