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Krazy & Ignatz

Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Krazy & Ignatz 1916 - 1918	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$22.22 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This month we have an embarrassment of riches in the comics classics department, and the lead off can be none other than this absolutely essential volume. Here it is: the first three years of George Herriman's splendiferous Sunday pages for the one and only Krazy Kat! With this volume, Fantagraphics launches its third and final leg of collecting the entirety of Krazy Kat Sunday pages. Due to the fact that the first nine years of the run had been collected in a series of nine volumes jointly published by Eclipse Books and Turtle Island Press roughly twenty years ago, Fantagraphics Potentates, Kim Thompson and Gary Groth decided it was best to pick up the run after that point and then, if the series met with success (which it, of course did) then they would circle back and start over from the beginning and collect those first nine years. And, so here we are. And what a glorious place to be!
Krazy & Ignatz in Tiger Tea	George Herriman	IDW Publishing	Krazy & Ignatz	$11.75 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	<<•>> edited by Craig Yoe; introduction by Paul Krassner <<•>> Here we have 91 Krazy Kat dailies from 1936 and 1937; two extended runs – eight straight weeks in '36 and four in '37 – interconnected by choice strips inbetween. While, as is usual with collections edited by Craig Yoe, it is hard to determine what guided his choice and arrangement of the material – other than the fact that the strips are, at least in theory, all related to the putative "Tiger Tea" storyline that is considered Herriman's only foray into an an extended connected narrative – but, hey! – it's all George Herriman, so, really, who cares? Introduced by Paul Krassner and editor Yoe, and packaged in an affordable hardcover volume, it's hard to pass up.
Krazy & Ignatz 1935 - 1936	George Herriman, Bill Blackbeard	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$17.77 ($19.95 list)
Read more and comment...	NOW IN FULL COLOR! Herriman took a short break from penning Krazy Kat in 1935, but when he returned Krazy went to full color, and The Complete Collected Krazy Kat by Fantagraphics Books follows suit. Beginning with this volume and continuing through the next four, until the strip's conclusion, all will be in full color. Because this volume is short on strips as a result of there being no Krazy Kat for the first half of 1935, it has bonuses galore! To wit: "The new color format also opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular rare color art from series editor Bill Blackbeard’s files, including a surprising color self-portrait by Herriman, several Kat watercolors executed for friends, peers, and relatives, some watercolored non-Krazy Kat material, a reproduction of a vintage archy and mehitabel dust jacket by Herriman - plus a period spoof of Krazy Kat by Minute Movies’ Ed Wheelan, and several instances of other cartoonists imitating Herriman’s unique “Family Upstairs / Krazy Kat” format. This volume also includes “The Kolor of Krazy Kat,” a revelatory essay by journalist and critic Jeet Heer that addresses in-depth the mystery of Herriman’s racial origins, and the varying ways in which Herriman dealt with them artistically throughout his career - a major addition to Herriman-related scholarship and commentary." -- so states Fantagraphics
Krazy & Ignatz 1929 - 1930	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	It's here at last! Another two full years of the greatest newspaper comics strip of all time. Savor and enjoy! Swell cover designs continue by Mr. Chris Ware.
Krazy & Ignatz 1927 - 1928	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The second installment of Fantagraphics' acclaimed collection of the greatest comicstrip of all time! Complete with another swell Chris Ware designed cover/package. What more do you need to know?
Krazy & Ignatz 1933-1934: "Necromancy By the Blue Bean Bush"	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	A new volume of Krazy Kat is a joyful arrival in this or any season, and this is certainly no exception. This volume presents some of the rarest and hardest to track down of the Krazy Kat strips; with some, in fact, proving impossible to track down. As a result the publishers had to employ microfilm copies in quite a few of the strips reproduced here. The image quality in this volume suffers a bit as a result. This is made up for by the most sumptuous Chris Ware cover yet, along with the nifty additions to this volume, including an early Dingbat Family strip that features Krazy, some Baron Bean strips from 1916 and a complete "never-before-seen" ten-episode daily strip, all by Herriman. Krazy Kat strips are deceptively simple. A cursory glance yields only surface charms that seem to dull with repetition. There are, however, deeper truths to be found, but they are not obvious. Each strip must be taken slowly and meditated over. Given patience and care, the strip will open itself to the diligent reader, with the rewards commensurate to the effort expended. George Herriman's Krazy Kat is a singular achievement in the annals of art.
KRAZY AND IGNATZ: THE KOMPLETE KAT KOMICS 1925 & 1926	George Herriman, Chris Ware	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$17.77 ($19.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Designed by Chris Ware -- Finally! Picking up where the Eclipse/Turtle Island series left off in its attempt to collect the complete Krazy Kat Sunday strips, Fantagraphics picks up the fallen torch and once again we're off! Do your duty and buy each and every one of these sure-to-be-fabulous volumes as soon as they come off the press and thereby do your part to not only enrich your own soul, but to provide the much needed cash influx to keep this series going so that yet another generation can be exposed to Herriman's genius and that Krazy Kat! -- 120-page, 8-1/2" x 11" softcover B&W graphic album * ISBN 1-56097-386-2
Krazy & Ignatz 1937 - 1938	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$17.77 ($19.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The latest in this amazing series is now on our shelves, wrapped in its fine Chris Ware designed cover and endpapers and packed with a full complement of 104 full-page full-color Sunday strips. Page after page of visual and verbal whirlygigs and whackiness, formal experimentation, philosophical meanderings and just plain fun.
Krazy & Ignatz 1943 - 1944: "He Nods in Quiescent Siesta"	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	This beautiful, full color, oversize softcover volume designed by Chris Ware brings us to the end of the thirty year journey of George Herriman's amazing Krazy Kat comic strip. It's packed with Herriman rarities including letters, photos, some wonderful one-of-a-kind hand-colored illustrations, and several never-before-seen Herriman works that together help take the sting out of knowing that this volume completes the collection of Krazy Kat Sunday pages that began twenty(?) years ago with the Eclipse / Turtle Island editions. For those of you who only joined this journey when Fantagraphics took it over, you still have quite a treat to look forward to as Fantagraphics intends to now circle back to the beginning and collect the first ten years of Krazy Kat, creating what is sure to be the definitive uniform edition. For the time being, let's all savor the last fruits of Herriman's genius and then give thanks.
Krazy & Ignatz: 1931-1932	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	by George Herriman Huzzah! It is a heppy, heppy day. The fourth volume in Fantagraphics fabulous series collecting the entirety of the Sunday pages of George Herriman's amazing masterpiece, Krazy Kat, is here! As with previous volumes, this book contains two complete years of Krazy Kat Sunday pages along with commentary by the "Mr. Know-It-All" of classic newspaper comics, Bill Blackbeard, all between covers designed by contemporary comics ace, Chris Ware. And as a special added bonus, unique (so far) to this volume -- 60 daily Krazy Kat strips from 1931. Huzzah! Learn more about the mouse, the Kat and the (Herri)man here.
Krazy and Ignatz - 1941 - 1942: "A Ragout of Raspberries"	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$17.77 ($19.95 list)
Read more and comment...	By George Herriman It's here, the latest -- and, sadly, the next-to-last -- two-year collection of the full color Krazy Kat Sunday pages. That's right, there's 104 full color, full page reproductions of Herriman masterworks laid out one after another, filling this volume that is more than just a book, becoming, during the process of its consumption, a soothing balm for frazzled nerves and a lightener of darkened moods. Edited, as always, by the indefatigable Bill Blackbeard and witih an introduciton by classic comics aficionado, Jeet Heer that is accompanied by some choice Herriman works including a double-page spread of an original watercolor that we guarantee will knock your socks off! Essential.
Krazy & Ignatz - 1939 - 1940: "A Brick Stuffed with Moom-Bims"	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$16.95 ($19.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Introduction by Jeet Heer. Two more complete years of the one and only Krazy Kat, all in full color. We're in the home stretch of the original run now: only two more volumes to go (sob) ... but then Fantagraphics will be going back to the beginning and printing the first ten years that were previously published by Eclipse and have been out of print for over a decade, so there's still plenty more to look forward to. For now we have another 105 flights of fancy from the inimitable George Herriman, all wrapped up in another fine C. Ware designed package. What's that? You say you ain't hep to the kat? Well then, here's where to start.

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