{"product_id":"george-herriman-krazy-kat-the-complete-color-sundays-19351944-by-alexander-braun-9783754401309","title":"George Herriman. Krazy Kat. The Complete Color Sundays 1935–1944","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harbouring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his \u003cem\u003elegendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat\u003c\/em\u003e, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Through his \u003cem\u003ewit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003edetailed characterisation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003evisual-verbal creativity\u003c\/em\u003e, Herriman introduced even the least comically-inclined to the young medium. Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, US President Woodrow Wilson, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, P.G. Wodehouse, Willem de Kooning—all Krazy Kat fans among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was thanks to media tycoon \u003cem\u003eWilliam Randolph Hearst\u003c\/em\u003e, a confirmed fan who gave Herriman carte blanche in his newspapers, that the artist was allowed to freely explore countless absurd and melancholy variations on the theme of unrequited love for years on end. Herriman unabashedly took advantage of this, radically exploring the medium's potential and pushing all of its formal boundaries. Readers had to put up with \u003cem\u003esurreal, Dadaist sceneries\u003c\/em\u003e, a language that whirled slang, neologisms, phonetic spelling, and scholarly references, and diffuse gender roles—making Krazy Kat probably the first gender-fluid star in comic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents \u003cem\u003eall Krazy Kat colour stories from 1935-1944\u003c\/em\u003e and a \u003cem\u003edetailed introduction\u003c\/em\u003e by comic expert \u003cem\u003eAlexander Braun\u003c\/em\u003e, who illuminates Herriman's multi-ethnic background and reveals what makes this timeless work of art about a queer cat so extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430798442732,"sku":"9783754401309","price":235.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783754401309.jpg?v=1774558566","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/george-herriman-krazy-kat-the-complete-color-sundays-19351944-by-alexander-braun-9783754401309","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}