George Herriman

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George Joseph Herriman (1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913-1944).

Krazy Kat had a more devoted audience among those in the arts than popular.

"The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself," Gilbert Seldes' essay "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the first example of a high-art critic paying serious attention to a comic strip.

The strip appeared on the Comics Journal's list of the top comics of the twentieth century.

Will Eisner, Charles M. Schulz, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Bill Watterson, and Chris Ware have all been influenced by Herriman's work. Herriman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to mixed-race Creole parents, and he grew up in Los Angeles.

Since graduating from high school in 1897, he worked in newspaper sales as an illustrator and engraver.

He began drawing comic strips, which was then in its infancy, and in his strip The Dingbat Family in 1910, he introduced Krazy Kat, his most popular character.

A Krazy Kat daily strip began in 1913, and in 1916 the strip appeared on Sundays.

It was praised for its poetic, dialect-heavy dialogue, its amazing, transforming backgrounds, and its bold, experimental page layouts. Ignatz Mouse pelted Krazy with bricks, which the nave, androgynous Kat interpreted as signs of love in the strip's key motif and dynamic.

A love triangle formed between Krazy, Ignatz, and Offisa Pupp as the strip progressed.

Pupp made it his mission to discourage Ignatz from throwing bricks at Krazy or in prison for doing so, but his attempts were stifled by Ignatz's bricks. Herriman lived in Los Angeles for the majority of his life, but he took frequent trips to the Navajo deserts in the southwestern United States. He was attracted to the landscapes of Monument Valley and the Enchanted Mesa, and he made Coconino County the home of his Krazy Kat strips.

Against changing desert backgrounds, his artwork made heavy use of Navajo and Mexican themes and motifs.

He was a prolific cartoonist who illustrated Don Marquis' books of poetry about Archy and Mehitabel, an alley cat and a cockroach.

Despite its inability, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was a champion of Herriman and gave him a lifetime deal with the King Features Syndicate, which guaranteed Herriman a secure life and an outlet for his work.

Personal life

Herriman was described as self-deprecatingly modest, and he hated being photographed. Obeduary John Kerry's obituary referred to him as a loving husband and father, of little height, mild-mannered, and a non-donor to charities. He was generous to his families and sold his first Hollywood home, which he had purchased for $50,000, to a friend for $40,000. Despite being a private person, he was rumored to be an entertaining host to his guests. He would often sit at dinnertime and will often leave the room to wash dishes, which he enjoyed because it gave him the opportunity to think. He loved playing poker, which he especially enjoyed with his fellow cartoonists.

Herriman had a love of animals and had a large number of dogs and cats; in 1934, he had five dogs and thirteen cats. He stayed to a vegetarian diet, but not until it made him feel too ill and he refused to ride horses. He admired Henry Ford's pacifist position that he would only buy Ford automobiles. He bought a new one every year.

On July 7, 1902, Herriman married Mabel Lillian Bridge, his childhood sweetheart. Mabel (b.) and Josephine (b.) had two children. "Toots" and Barbara (b. 1903), nicknamed "Toots" and later "Barbart" and Barbara (b. Bobbie," 1909), had epilepsy and died in 1939 at the age of 30, and was given the name "Bobbie" in 1939.

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