Does anybody else read Krazy Kat or am i the only one autistic enough about newspaper strips to like it. Also where the hell do i find the sunday strips without paying 100$ to buy the physical collection.
I know about him due to a Garfield magazine I got
>>153620285I've started too very recently. It's pretty cool. I've tried before to read comic strips but didn't get into any probably because I tried to read them all in one go like any other book, and that really doesn't fly with these things in my opinion. Really wears out it's welcome. Just reading a few each day though works very well, that's what they were made for obviously. I don't know where to find all the Sunday strips. Fantagraphics has the George Harriman library which isn't finished yet but is supposed to have everything he ever did eventually, and they got like 5 volumes so far, you can find those online somewhere.
>>153620285Yes. Love me newspaper strips.I don't like how Krazy looks in kolor though so I stick to the B+W era
Sancho and Don are my two favorites.
>>153620285I’ve asked this question before and no one had an answer. I tried using newspapers.com to read the Chicago Tribune (assuming that would be an easy to get a lot of old strips at once) but the comics often weren’t included in the issues I checked. The Tribune has its own archive but you need an Illinois address to access it via the Chicago Public Library. I also found another newspaper archive service that seemed promising but there’s no individual memberships, you need an institutional login to access it.
>>153620285I like it.
>>153620285I've read more than my fair share of Krazy Kat strips. They're repetitive but fun. Honestly OP ypu should just buy the book. Check abebooks or ebay. I made out like a bandit with all four volumes of the Nemo Popeye reprints. Considering how old Kat and Ignatz are dont expect many scans soon.
>>153620285Aquí un dibujo de un fan.
>>153620285It's impenetrable to me, I respect the influence but that's about it, what do you like about it?
>>153625307beautiful paneling and really inventive and creative art. Also its somewhat obtuse but i like the way herman writes. He has a very unique style.
It's a remarkable and valuable piece of history, OP. But, reading it? I haven't even thought to. Probably my failure.
'tis poetryo-deero-deer
>>153626927>takes three in-dream falls to wake upHe's dense, isn't he
>>153626978Boy do I have news for you
>>153626978some may even call her krazy.
>>153620613I thought they got all the Sundays.
>>153620285This cat was born in the same year as Richard Nixon.
>>153620285>>153622540Have you tried checking local library systems? Emphasis on plural, sometimes there are others nearby beyond the regular one you might go to, and collection material can vary a lot. Krazy Kat is fairly high profile as old comic strips go and the physical collections are classy enough that you might get lucky. Obviously it depends a lot where you live but if you were so fortunate as to have a Chicago Public Library card I'd recommend checking their physical collection before scouring their digital archives. >>153628071They did, back in the 2000s. That run was complete but has long been out of print. Fantagraphics is in the middle of a new release but it's incomplete so far. So they are out there but price and availability won't be consistent.
>the laundry in the background
Is anyone else annoyed by modern comics writers referring to Herriman as black? He was a mixed race guy with both black and white ancestry, but passed as white and was seemingly identified by himself and everyone around him as white during his lifetime. Maybe that was the result of racism at the time, but it was still the identity he chose. Isn't it ironically rather racist to insist on calling him black despite his self-identification just because he had black ancestry, basically appealing to the "one-drop rule" of Jim Crow? If he lived as a white person, he isn't now black in retrospect just because of genetics.
>>153631277Ya blew it Ignatz
>>153631273I mean his choice was either identify as white or give up his entire career and social life on top of losing a significant portion of rights. We know in public he passed as white, what he thought of himself as in private he never explicitly wrote about
>>153631273>Isn't it ironically rather racist to insist on calling him black despite his self-identification just because he had black ancestry, basically appealing to the "one-drop rule" of Jim Crow?I was about to say that.
You'd think the brick throwing would get old but I chuckle everytime.
>>153631277Good one.
>>153633109Some things are just too timeless I suppose lol
>>153620285Hearst had good taste
>>153631051Krazy...
Kool.
>>153631273>>153632411Leftists are inherently racist. Their political party founded the KKK, after all.
Krazy Kat is The Birth of a Nation of newspaper strips
>>153639738So it's kino.
Is Kat a boy or gril?
>>153620285Din't recognize the charactre
>>153639738HELL YEAH BROTHER
I remember watching the cartoon show of this
>>153639738>>153642790I have Birth of a Nation on DVD. Not racist, I just appreciate its place in film history. Boy, was it awkward at the thrift store checkout though, when I was buying it and the lady at the register was black. Thankfully I don't think she paid any attention to it among the rest of my movie haul.
>page 10Quo vadis?
>>153642887There was a cartoon of this?
>>153644251There were several but I heard they were all uninspired Alex-the-Cat rip offs that had nothing to do with the source material
>>153644251There was, but Harriman had nothing to do with it, and the characters bear little resemblance to his creation.
>>153620285>Aso where the hell do i find the sunday strips without paying 100$ to buy the physical collection.It's a little barbaric but if you sub to newspapers.com you can scroll through the papers that carried itI had to do that to get a lot of Sam's Strip comics
>>153644418>Alex-the-Catnever heard of it
Remember when gaturro had his name changed to krazy kat?
>>153646537Shit, I'm drunk. Felix the Cat*
>>153646692I don't remember that at all!
>>153646916kek
I've never heard of this. Reading through the read I like it. Will have to look up more later.
>>153620285It's kinda surreal, so it's fun.
>>153629684>>153620285I've wanted to get into it for a while now and have some Fantabucks to burn - can anyone suggest the best single collection? Or like peak years?
