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April 25, 2017

April 25, 1944

George Herriman (August 22, 1880 to April 25, 1944) drew the famous Krazy Kat cartoons. According to a recent commentary:

Krazy Kat has been described as a parable of love, a metaphor for democracy, a “surrealistic” poem, unfolding over years and years. It is all of these, but so much more: it is a portrait of America, a self-portrait of Herriman, and, I believe, the first attempt to paint the full range  of human consciousness in the language of the comic strip.

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