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With a reputation for beauty and artistry that has long exceeded its availability, "Krazy Kat," the comic strip by George Herriman that ran between 1918 and 1944, has at last begun a full reprinting with high hopes of finishing the job. First begun by the now-defunct Eclipse Books, which got as far as 1924, Fantagraphics Books has picked up where they left off. "Krazy and Ignatz" (120pp.; $14.95) reprints the full-page, Sunday strips from 1925 and 1926, and will continue to reprint two years-worth of Sundays every year until the end. The common thread throughout is love...
...remorse from Brady for his own crimes will not discover it in The Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...
...everything else, Griffith has brought back the art of drawing to the comics page. The "Zippy Annual" reprints the weekday strips at twice the size they normally get in the paper, revealing the fine pen work. Because of the reduced reprint size for most strips, only the most simplistic scribblers get rewarded. While many other strips look as if the cartoonists held the pen in their teeth, Griffith actually shades his work for depth and weight. The Sunday strips likewise use the color for effect rather than being merely colored-in. One Sunday strip has just two panels. The left...
...Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who was then professor of English, comparative literature and Africana studies at Cornell University, generously offered to publish an expanded edition of the book in a series he was editing for Greenwood Press. Yet Greenwood could afford neither to typeset the book nor to reprint any of the rare photographs we had located...
...response to Susan Brunka’s passionate disapproval of The Crimson's reprint of a 1962 article besmirching Radcliffe women (Letters, “A Reader’s Reply,” May 23; Opinion, “A Grader’s Reply,” May 16), I would hope Brunka and other readers of like mind would consider these documents historical...