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Encounter at sea (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
L’il Bullshiwikki (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Faithful but foolish (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Armless (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Love will find a way (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Sic transit sin (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
A potted kop (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Evil walks with beauty (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Bad Luck (George Herriman’s Krazy Kat)
Hey — Duck (Krazy Kat)
I witch to be illone (Krazy Kat)
Krazy Kat (Book Acquired, 9.19.2014)
I picked up this first edition of the first collection of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat a few weeks ago. Not sure if there was originally a dust jacket (?). Anyway, there’s an essay-length introduction by e.e. cummings. From that intro:
Autumn (Krazy Kat)
An adventure in the esthetics (Krazy Kat)
A review of Escape from the Great American Novel, Drew Lerman’s zany satire on art, nature, and capitalism
Drew Lerman’s comic strip Snake Creek takes us into the world of best pals Roy and Dav, weirdos among weirdos in Weirdest Florida. Their adventures and misadventures are both absurdly comic and zanily tragic, calling to mind George Herriman’s Krazy Kat strips and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism, Walt Kelly’s primeval Pogo and Robert Coover’s jivetalk, all rendered… Continue reading A review of Escape from the Great American Novel, Drew Lerman’s zany satire on art, nature, and capitalism
A review of Ishmael Reed’s sharp satire The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Ishmael Reed’s 1974 novel The Last Days of Louisiana Red is a sharp, zany satire of US culture at the end of the twentieth century. The novel, Reed’s fourth, is a sequel of sorts to Mumbo Jumbo (1972), and features that earlier novel’s protagonist, the Neo-HooDoo ghost detective Papa LaBas. In Mumbo Jumbo, Reed gave us the story of an… Continue reading A review of Ishmael Reed’s sharp satire The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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