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3 unusual facts about George Herriman


Alfons Figueras

In his work they had a great influence the silent humorous cinema, the fantastic cinema, the genre novels and classic North Americans comics, as well as the comic strip Krazy Kat, of George Herriman.

Lil' Ainjil

Unlike the Krazy Kat films of the Winkler and Columbia periond, animator Isidore Klein attempt to create Lil' Ainjil in the milieu of George Herriman's comic strips.

Tamara Barnett-Herrin

In 2011, she performed in and composed songs for the ballet Love Letters in Ancient Brick, choreographed by Mai-Thu Perret and Laurence Yadi, based on George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip.


Dogpatch

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's (and Lower Slobbovia's) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

Jo, Zette and Jocko

He was fascinated by new techniques in the medium – such as the systematic use of speech bubbles – found in such American comics as George McManus' Bringing up Father, George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Rudolph Dirks's Katzenjammer Kids, copies of which had been sent to him from Mexico by the paper's reporter Léon Degrelle, stationed there to report on the Cristero War.

There Is a Happy Land

It is also a favorite song of Krazy Kat, the main character from George Herriman's eponymous newspaper comic strip (1913-1944), where the song's opening verse is often willingly misspelled as "There is a heppy lend fur fur away... sic".


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