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The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz comic books issue 1

  • Issue #1-1ST
    George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1928-1930 HC (2025 FB) 1-1ST


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    1st printing. Story and art by George Herriman. In this volume: What profound insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? Whats with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum Bill Bee take him? These are just some of the questions that are beside the point in this collection of the hauntingly surreal, yet amazingly tender/violent adventures of Krazy Kat, Ignatz, and Offisa Pup.With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century. Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 228 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $49.99.

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    $50 George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1928-1930 HC 2025 Fantagraphics Books

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  • Issue #1-1ST
    George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1916-1918 HC (2019 FB) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by George Herriman.

    This new collection of George Herriman's masterpiece Krazy Kat brings back into print the inventive language, haunting vistas, and brick throwing that makes this strip so special. Perfect for Krazy Kat veterans or brand-new readers, this collection provides you with the joy of joining the inhabitants of surreal Coconino County in the strip that originally elevated the comics medium into a celebrated art form.

    Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 168 pages, 2C.

    Cover price $35.00.

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    George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1919-1921 HC (2020 FB) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by George Herriman.

    George Herriman's Krazy Kat detailed the comings and goings of a lovestruck vagabond "Kat," a malicious mouse, and a diligent dog trying to keep order. This new deluxe hardcover collects the full-sized Sunday pages from 1919 through 1921 including photographs, artwork, and introductory text by comic historians Bill Blackbeard and Michael Tisserand.

    Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 184 pages, 2C.

    Cover price $35.00.

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    George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1922-1924 HC (2022 FB) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by George Herriman.

    One of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history waywardly treks on through the 1920s, with all its madcap animal inhabitants in tow, in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection. In this volume: precarious coconuts, incarcerated elephants, and witty weather patterns. Krazy Kat themself take a swing at singing, astronomy, and starring in ... their own comic strip! It also features essays by Herriman scholars, plus ten rare full-color experimental strips by Herriman.

    This Eisner Award-nominated series, featuring all the Krazy Kat Sunday strips' eternally beguiling love triangle, luminous language, and grand desert décor, makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this the best comic strip ever created.

    Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 280 pages, PC/PB&W.

    Cover price $49.99.

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    George Herriman Library: Krazy and Ignatz 1925-1927 HC (2023 FB) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by George Herriman.

    Meticulously and lovingly restored, this exquisite, generously sized volume collects the acclaimed and groundbreaking Krazy Kat Sunday strips of 1925, 1926, and 1927.

    This Eisner Award-nominated series showcases one of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history as it strides boldly through the mid-1920s, its quirky characters in full flower in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection.

    In this volume: Ignatz repeatedly sets elaborate traps for Krazy (long before the Road Runner), adventures on the "enchanted mesa," wacky weather, literal cliffhangers - and what happens when Santa and the stork arrive at the same chimney at the same moment? BONUS: The most complete collection of Herriman's long-lost Book of Magic pages ever assembled.

    With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be "the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century."

    Krazy Kat is an ongoing story of a (head-) achingly unrequited love triangle. Krazy adores Ignatz, who returns that affection by launching literal bricks at Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy is genderless) by tossing Ignatz in the pokey. With this deceptively simple structure, Herriman builds entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up with the looping verbal and visual rhythms of his characters' unique dialogue and his loopy, ever-shifting surrealistic backgrounds.

    Hardcover, 11 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 228 pages, PC/PB&W.

    Cover price $49.99.