Why society tortured this groundbreaking comic artist

The genius artist everyone copied, but who lived in fear of discovery.

Krazy Kat Comic Links:

Gorgeous Edition of Color Sunday Strips (drool):
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Sunday Full Page Strips:

Volume 1: https://amzn.to/3qBw8jW
Volume 2: https://amzn.to/45fOPIV
Volume 3: https://amzn.to/3smK81g
Volume 4: https://amzn.to/3OY7q6B

Fantagraphics is in the process of reprinting this entire series with new covers and essays, but they have printed it all in the past, so if you can’t wait the used editions are floating around out there.

The daily strips are harder to find, I know of this old Fantagraphics volume, but hopefully we see more printed soon:
https://amzn.to/44o1TLi

Read the full story and support Michael Tisserand’s incredible research by buying his biography of Herriman:
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Sources:

Krazy: George Herriman: A Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand - https://amzn.to/3qBw8jW
I relied heavily on the essays found within the Fantagraphics Sunday collections, some of which are out of print.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...


Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing...)