{"id":1088,"date":"2008-07-15T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2008-07-15T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T17:02:46","slug":"hey-kids-comics-whole-lotta-herriman-july-15th-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/hey-kids-comics-whole-lotta-herriman-july-15th-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"HEY! KIDS! COMICS! : Whole Lotta Herriman : July 15th, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I make it no secret that George Herriman is my favorite artist of all time… Herriman’s Krazy Kat<\/em> I think is the greatest artwork ever made in any medium. <\/p>\n

This has been probably the best week ever for finding Herriman reprints online. <\/p>\n

First of all Allan Holtz at the Stripper’s Guide brought us his latest Herriman Saturday<\/strong><\/a>, as he does every Saturday… these posts feature an ongoing complete reprinting of early, early political and other cartoons from the Los Angeles Examiner<\/em> by Herriman. <\/p>\n

Next our friends at Barnacle Press (easily the best place to read ancient comics online) posted numerous examples of two early, extremely rare Herriman strips, Major Ozone’s Fresh Air Crusade<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and The Two Jolly Jackies<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Note in the earliest Ozone strip presented from 1904, we already have a very familiar looking Kat inhabiting the bottom of the strip (a preview of which is pictured above). <\/p>\n

Barnacle Press also pointed us to The Ignatz Archive<\/strong><\/a>, an online sm\u00c3\u00b6rg\u00c3\u00a5sbord of a whole bunch of rare early Herriman strips! <\/p>\n

To top things off, I Love Comix printed a great Krazy Kat<\/em> Sunday<\/strong><\/a> and Mark Kausler ran another wonderful bunch of Krazy Kat<\/em> dailies<\/a><\/strong> (which he has been doing for some time now). <\/p>\n

I can’t wait to have the time to read all these treasures!<\/p>\n