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{{short description|American comic strip by George Herriman which ran from 1913 to 1944}}
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'''''Krazy Kat''''' was a ] created by ], appearing in both weekday and Sunday U.S. ] published by ]. It grew from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, ''The Dingbat Family'', which had started in ]. Herriman would complete the cartoons about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over from his 8-hour day, filled the bottom of the strip with the slapstick antics of a cat and a mouse. This "basement strip" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon, and became a Sunday-only cartoon on ], ], and before long also a daily strip. Herriman continued to draw ''Krazy Kat'' until his death in ].
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'''''Krazy Kat''''' (also known as '''''Krazy & Ignatz''''' in some reprints and compilations) is an ] newspaper ], created by cartoonist ], which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the '']'', whose owner, ], was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. The characters had been introduced previously in a side strip with Herriman's earlier creation, '']'',<ref>Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams, "The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics". pp. 59–60.</ref> after earlier appearances in the Herriman comic strip '']''.<ref>Krazy & Ignatz, Volume 1, George Herriman, introduction by Bill Blackbeard, Stinging Monkey Publications, 2003</ref> The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of ], ''Krazy'' {{nowrap|''Kat''{{'s}}}} mixture of offbeat ], innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years.<ref name = "Kramer"/><ref name="Shannon">Shannon.</ref><ref name="MOD 26">McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 26.</ref>
''Krazy Kat'' focused on the relationship triangle of its title character, Krazy, a cat of indeterminate gender (but often referred to in the feminine), his/her antagonist and love interest Ignatz Mouse, and Krazy's protector, Offisa Pupp, who nursed an unrequited love for Krazy. Most of the strips followed the formula of Ignatz throwing a brick at Krazy Kat, which while endearing Ignatz to Krazy, would usually result with Offisa Pupp putting Ignatz behind bars.


The strip focuses on the curious relationship between a guileless, carefree, simple-minded cat named Krazy and a short-tempered mouse named Ignatz. Krazy nurses an unrequited love for the mouse, but Ignatz despises Krazy and constantly schemes to throw bricks at Krazy's head, which Krazy interprets as a sign of affection, uttering grateful replies such as "Li'l dollink, allus f'etful", or "Li'l ainjil". A third principal character, Officer Bull Pupp, often appears and tries to "protect" Krazy by thwarting Ignatz' attempts and imprisoning him. Later on, Officer Pupp falls in love with Krazy.
The title character's dialogue was a highly stylized ] ("A fowl konspirissy—is it pussible?") in a phonetic rendering evoking the accent of the ] of Herriman's youth. The strip's descriptive passages mix whimsical language with a poetic sensibility. ("A pilgrim on the road to nowhere — pauses at the base of the Enchanted Mesa, and drops a fragment of philosophical fatuity.") In the ], when the Sunday strip was printed in color, Herriman experimented with bold colors and unconventional page layouts.
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Set against a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's spiritual home of ], ], ''Krazy Kat'' was a strip unlike any seen in newspapers before or since. Public reaction at the time of its appearance was largely negative, due to its iconoclastic refusal to conform to comic strip conventions and simple gags. But Hearst loved it, and it continued to appear in his papers throughout its run, sometimes only by his direct order. It was also praised by intellectuals and critics, most notably ], who wrote a lengthy ] in '']'' calling the strip "the most satisfying work of art...in America today." In the ], a stage musical based on ''Krazy Kat'' was even produced.


Despite the slapstick simplicity of the general premise, the detailed characterization, combined with Herriman's visual and verbal creativity, made ''Krazy Kat'' one of the first comics to be widely praised by intellectuals and treated as "serious" art.<ref name="Kramer">Kramer.</ref> Art critic ] wrote a lengthy ] to the strip in 1924, calling it "the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced in America today".<ref>Seldes, Gilbert. " {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108185720/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/SELDES/ch15.html |date=2010-01-08}}". The Seven Lively Arts. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924, p. 231.</ref> Poet ], another Herriman admirer, wrote the introduction to the first collection of the strip in book form.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Humphrey|first=Aaron|date=2017-06-05|title=The Cult of Krazy Kat: Memory and Recollection in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction|journal=The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship|volume=7|doi=10.16995/cg.97|issn=2048-0792|doi-access=free}}</ref> These critical appraisals by Seldes and cummings were influential in establishing ''Krazy Kat''{{'}}s reputation as a work of ].<ref name=":0" /> Though ''Krazy Kat'' was only a modest success during its initial run, in more recent years, many modern cartoonists have cited the strip as a major influence.
The comic strip was animated several times, ranging from ] to ]. The one with closest connection to the comic-strip is the 1962-64 animated adaptation that was made in ]. However, because censors wouldn't allow a male cat to have a homosexual relationship with a male mouse, Krazy was made explicitly female. The background art was very similar to Herriman's, however. Also they allowed the theme of ] to continue


==Legacy== == Overview ==
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''Krazy Kat'' takes place in a heavily stylized version of ], with Herriman filling the page with caricatured flora and fauna, and rock formation landscapes typical of the ].<ref>Heer 41–45.</ref> These backgrounds tend to change dramatically between panels, even while the characters remain stationary. While the local geography is fluid, certain sites were stable—and featured so often in the strip as to become iconic. These latter included Officer Pupp's jailhouse and Kolin Kelly's brickyard. A Southwestern visual style is evident throughout, with clay-shingled rooftops, trees planted in pots with designs imitating ] art, along with references to Mexican-American culture. The strip also occasionally features incongruous trappings borrowed from the stage, with curtains, backdrops, theatrical placards, and sometimes even floor lights framing the panel borders.
In ], ''Krazy Kat'' was rated #1 in a '']'' list of the best comics of the twentieth century. The list included both ]s and ]s.


The descriptive passages mix whimsical, often ] language with ] and a strong poetic sensibility ("], centuries aslumber, shivers in its sleep with splenetic splendor, and spreads abroad a seismic spasm with the supreme suavity of a vagabond volcano"<ref>''A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night'' 71.</ref>). Herriman was also fond of experimenting with unconventional page layouts in his Sunday strips, including panels of various shapes and sizes, arranged in whatever fashion he thought would best tell the story.
] has mentioned ''Krazy Kat'' as one of his inspirations for his own cartoon series, '']''. The work of ] is strongly influenced by Herriman's style. ], author of the acclaimed comic strip ''],'' also cites ''Krazy Kat'' as a major influence. (McDonnell wrote the introduction to ''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman''.) ]'s comic strip '']'' is set in "Kokonino County", an homage to Herriman's exotic locale. Herriman has also influenced ], who has designed a series of reprint volumes of the strip for ].


Though the basic concept of the strip is simple, Herriman always found ways to tweak the formula. Ignatz's plans to surreptitiously lob a brick at Krazy's head sometimes succeed; other times Officer Pupp outsmarts Ignatz and imprisons him. The interventions of Coconino County's other anthropomorphic animal residents, and even forces of nature, occasionally change the dynamic in unexpected ways. Other strips have Krazy's imbecilic or ] pronouncements irritating the mouse so much that he goes to seek out a brick in the final panel. Even ] is evident—in one strip, Officer Pupp, having arrested Ignatz, berates Herriman for not having finished drawing the jailhouse.<ref>''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman'' 97.</ref>
In ], the strip was one of 20 included in the ] series of commemorative US ].


Public reaction at the time was mixed; many were puzzled by its iconoclastic refusal to conform to linear comic strip conventions and straightforward gags, but publishing magnate ] loved ''Krazy Kat'', and it continued to appear in his papers throughout its run, sometimes only by his direct order.<ref>Schwartz 8–10.</ref>
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=== Krazy Kat ===
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Simple-minded, curious, mindlessly happy and perpetually innocent, the strip's title character drifts through life in Coconino County without a care. Krazy's dialogue is a highly stylized ] ("A fowl konspirissy – is it pussible?")<ref>''Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere'', 47.</ref> phonetically evoking a mixture of English, French, Spanish, ] and other dialects, often identified as George Herriman's own native ] dialect, ].<ref name="Shannon"/> Often singing and dancing to express the Kat's eternal joy, Krazy is hopelessly in love with Ignatz and thinks that the mouse's brick-tossing is his way of returning that love. Krazy is also completely unaware of the bitter rivalry between Ignatz and "Offissa" Pupp and mistakes the dog's frequent imprisonment of the mouse for an innocent game of ] ("Ever times I see them two playing games togedda, Ignatz seems to be It").<ref>''There is a Heppy Lend, Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay-'', 62.</ref> On those occasions when Ignatz is caught before he can launch his brick, Krazy is left pining for the "l'il ainjil" and wonders where the beloved mouse has gone.

Krazy's own gender is never made clear and appears to be fluid, varying from strip to strip. Most authors post-Herriman (beginning with Cummings) have mistakenly referred to Krazy only as female,<ref>Crocker.</ref> but Krazy's creator was more ambiguous and even published several strips poking fun at this uncertainty.<ref>''Necromancy By the Blue Bean Bush'', 16–17.</ref><ref>''A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K'', 71.</ref> When filmmaker ], a fan of the strip, asked Herriman to straightforwardly define the character's sex, the cartoonist admitted that Krazy was "something like a sprite, an elf. They have no sex. So that Kat can't be a he or a she. The Kat's a spirit—a pixie—free to butt into anything".<ref>Schwartz 9.</ref> Most characters inside the strip use "he" and "him" to refer to Krazy.

=== Ignatz Mouse ===
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Ignatz is driven to distraction by Krazy Kat's naïveté, and generally reacts by throwing bricks at Krazy's head. To shield his plans from Officer Pupp, Ignatz hides his bricks, disguises himself, or enlists the aid of willing Coconino County denizens (without making his intentions clear). Easing Ignatz's task is Krazy Kat's willingness to meet him anywhere at any appointed time, eager to receive a token of affection in the form of a brick to the head. Ignatz is married with three children, though they are rarely seen.

Ironically, although Ignatz seems to generally have contempt for Krazy, one strip shows his ancestor, ] Mouse, fall in love with Krazy's ancestor, an Egyptian cat princess (calling her his "Star of the Nile"), and pay a sculptor to carve a brick with a love message. When he throws it at her, he is arrested, but she announces her love for him, and from that day on, he throws bricks at her to show his love for her (which would explain why Krazy believes that Ignatz throwing bricks is a sign of love). In another strip, Krazy kisses a sleeping Ignatz, and hearts appear above the mouse's head.

In the last five (or so) years of the strip, Ignatz's feelings of animosity for Krazy were noticeably downplayed. While earlier, one got the sense of his taking advantage of Krazy's willingness to be "bricked", now one gets the sense of Ignatz and Krazy as chummy co-conspirators against Pupp, with Ignatz at times quite aware of the positive way Krazy interprets his missiles.

=== Officer Bull Pupp ===
A police dog who loves Krazy, and always tries (sometimes successfully) to thwart Ignatz's desires to pelt Krazy Kat with bricks. Officer Pupp and Ignatz often try to get the better of each other even when Krazy is not directly involved, as they both enjoy seeing the other played for a fool. He appears slightly less frequently than Krazy and Ignatz. He is also the main character of his own short film series.

=== Secondary characters ===
Beyond these three, Coconino County is populated with an assortment of incidental, recurring characters:
* '''Joe ]:''' the "purveyor of progeny to prince & ]",<ref>''A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night'' 67, et al.</ref> often makes baby deliveries to various characters. In one strip, Ignatz tries to trick him into dropping a brick onto Krazy's head from above. The character debuted in ''Gooseberry Sprig'' as the titular character's "Prime Minister".
* '''Kolin Kelly:''' a dog, a brickmaker by trade who bakes his wares in a kiln. He is often Ignatz's source for projectiles, although he distrusts the mouse.
* '''Mrs. Kwakk Wakk:''' a duck in a ], a ] and busybody who frequently notices Ignatz in the course of his plotting and informs Officer Pupp. She is a social climber, attempting in one strip continuity to replace Pupp as police chief.

Other characters who make semi-frequent appearances are:
* '''Mimi:''' a fine ]
* '''Walter Cephus Austridge:''' a nondescript ]
* '''Bum Bill Bee:''' a transient, bearded insect
* '''Don Kiyote:''' an inconsequential heterodox Mexican ]
* '''Mock Duck:''' a clairvoyant fowl of ] descent who operates a ].
* '''Gooseberry Sprig:''' the Duck Duke, who briefly starred in his own strip before ''Krazy Kat'' was created.
* Also: Krazy's '''Aunt Tabby''' and '''Uncle Tom'''; and his aerial and aquatic cousins, respectively: '''Krazy Katbird''' and '''Krazy Katfish'''.
* Ignatz also has relations; his family of look-alike mice includes his wife, '''Mathilda''' and a trio of equally unruly sons named '''Milton, Marshall''' and '''Irving'''.

== History ==
''Krazy Kat'' evolved from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, '']'', which started in June 1910 and was later renamed ''The Family Upstairs''. This comic chronicled the Dingbats' attempts to avoid the mischief of the mysterious unseen family living in the apartment above theirs and to unmask that family. Herriman would complete the daily comics about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over in his ], filled the bottom of the strip with slapstick drawings of the upstairs family's mouse preying upon the Dingbats' cat.<ref>McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 52.</ref>

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This "basement strip" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon. ''Krazy Kat'' first appeared as its own daily comic strip in 1911, and then again in the summer of 1912, although only temporarily at the time. It again became a daily comic strip (running vertically down the side of the page) in October 1913, and was thereafter to remain in syndication for more than thirty years. A black and white, full-page ''Krazy Kat'' Sunday comic was launched on April 23, 1916. Possibly due to the objections of editors, who did not think it was suitable for the comics sections, ''Krazy Kat'' originally appeared in the Hearst papers' art and drama sections.<ref>McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 58.</ref> It has been claimed that Hearst himself, however, enjoyed the strip so much that he gave Herriman a lifetime contract and guaranteed the cartoonist complete creative freedom,{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} although according to Michael Tisserand's biography on Herriman (2016), there exists no proof that this alleged lifetime contract was ever made or signed.

Despite its relatively low popularity among the general public, ''Krazy Kat'' gained a wide following among intellectuals. In 1922, a ] ] based on the comic was produced and scored by ]; though the performance played to sold-out crowds on two nights<ref>Blackbeard 1–3.</ref> and was given positive reviews in '']'' and '']'',<ref name = "McDonnell 66-7">McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 66–67.</ref> it failed to boost the strip's popularity as Hearst had hoped. In addition to Seldes and Cummings, contemporary admirers of ''Krazy Kat'' included ],<ref>Tisserand, Michael (2016). ''Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White''. Harper. p. 277.</ref> ], ], ],<ref>Tisserand, Michael (2016). ''Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White''. Harper. p. 113.</ref> ],<ref name="MOD 26"/> ]<ref>Kammen, Michael (1996). ''The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States''. Oxford University Press. p. 93.</ref> and artist ]. In 1931, Nash wrote that "no country has produced, in the narrow limits of this medium, a fantastic philosopher such as George Herriman".<ref>Nash, Paul: 'American Comics, a Foreign Appraisal of the Masters of Humorous Pencils'. '']''. August 19, 1931. Viewed February 27, 2023.</ref> Reportedly, president ] also read the strip regularly.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310135957/https://www.avclub.com/a-century-ago-krazy-kat-was-a-comics-page-masterpiece-1798254226 |date=2023-03-10 }}. November 13, 2016. Viewed March 10, 2023.</ref> More recent scholars and authors have seen the strip as reflecting the ] movement<ref>Inge.</ref> and prefiguring ].<ref name="Shannon"/><ref name="Bloom">Bloom.</ref>

In the summer of 1934, the ''Krazy Kat'' Sunday page was temporarily shelved, although the daily strip continued as before.<ref>Herriman, George (2005): ''Krazy & Ignatz: Komplete 1933-1934''. Fantagraphics. p. 6. {{ISBN|1560976209}}</ref> Beginning in June 1935, ''Krazy Kat''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Sunday page returned, and was thereafter published in full color. Though the number of newspapers carrying it dwindled in its last decade, Herriman continued to draw ''Krazy Kat'', creating roughly 3,000 comics in total, until his death in April 1944 (the final Sunday page was published exactly two months later, on June 25). Hearst promptly canceled the strip after the artist died, because, contrary to the common practice of the time, he did not want to see a new cartoonist take over.<ref>Schwartz 9–10.</ref>

=== Animated adaptations ===
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The comic strip was animated several times (see filmography below). The earliest ''Krazy Kat'' shorts were produced by Hearst, starting with the release of ''Introducing Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse'' in February 1916. More than 25 similar animated silent shorts were made until August 1917. They were produced under ] and later the ] (IFS), though Herriman was not involved.

In early 1920, after a two-year hiatus, the ] began producing a second series of ''Krazy Kat'' shorts.<ref name="Crafton">Crafton.</ref> These cartoons hewed close to the comic strips, including Ignatz, Pupp and other standard supporting characters. Krazy's ambiguous gender and feelings for Ignatz were usually preserved; bricks were occasionally thrown. Bray Productions produced at least eleven such ''Krazy Kat'' shorts until February 1921, after which the series ended. With added sound effects and music, these (originally silent) cartoons were in periodic reissue also during the 1930s and 1940s, and ended up being syndicated to television in the 1950s.

In 1925, animation pioneer ] decided to bring Krazy to the screen again. Nolan intended to produce the series under Associated Animators, but when it dissolved, he sought distribution from ]. Unlike earlier adaptations, Nolan did not base his shorts on the characters and setting of the Herriman comic strip. Instead, the feline in Nolan's cartoons was a male cat whose design and personality both reflected ]. This is probably due to the fact that Nolan himself was a former employee of the ] studio.<ref>Maltin 205–06.</ref> Other Herriman characters appeared in the Nolan cartoons at first, though similarly altered: Kwakk Wakk was at times Krazy's paramour,<ref>Winkler Productions: copyright synopsis for ''Web Feet'' (1927).</ref> with Ignatz often the bully trying to break up the romance.<ref>''Rail Rode''.</ref> Over time, Nolan's influence waned and new directors, Ben Harrison and Manny Gould, took over the series. By late 1927, they were solely in charge.
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Winkler's husband, ], slowly began assuming control of the operation. Mintz and his studio (later known as ]) began producing the cartoons in sound beginning with 1929's '']''. In 1931, he moved the staff to ] and ultimately changed the design of Krazy Kat.<ref></ref> The new character bore even less resemblance to the one in the newspapers. Mintz's Krazy Kat was, like many other early 1930s cartoon characters, imitative of ], and usually engaged in slapstick comic adventures with his look-alike girlfriend and loyal pet dog.<ref>Maltin 207.</ref> In 1936, animator Isadore Klein, with the blessing of Mintz, set to work creating the short '']'', the only Mintz work that was intended to reflect Herriman's comic strip. However, Klein was "terribly disappointed" with the resulting cartoon, and the Mickey-derivative Krazy returned.<ref>Maltin 210–11.</ref> In 1939, Mintz became indebted to his distributor, ], and subsequently sold his studio to them.<ref>Maltin 213.</ref> The studio released its final ''Krazy Kat'' cartoon, '']'', in January 1940 as part of their '']'' series, which was also the last screen adaptation of ''Krazy Kat'' to be made during Herriman's lifetime. In the 1960s, some of the later shorts were colorized and released on ] film.

As had been the case with the animated ''Krazy Kat'' shorts of the silent era, Herriman was not involved in the making of the sound shorts of the 1930s.

King Features produced 50 ''Krazy Kat'' cartoons from 1962 to 1964, most of which were created at ]'s ] in ], ] (now the Czech Republic), whilst the rest were produced by Artransa Film Studios in Sydney, Australia. The cartoons were initially televised interspersed with '']'' (some of which were also produced by Artransa) and '']'' cartoons to form a half-hour TV show, ''The King Features Trilogy''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=476–77}}</ref> These cartoons helped to introduce Herriman's cat to the ]. 27 of these cartoons have been made available on DVD within the "Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack" set.

The King Features shorts of the 1960s were made for television and have a closer connection to the comic strip; the backgrounds are drawn in a similar style, Ignatz was present and once again the reluctant object of Krazy's affection. This incarnation of Krazy was made female; Penny Phillips voiced Krazy<ref>{{Cite episode|series=To Tell the Truth|series-link=To Tell the Truth|network=]|date=February 3, 1964|minutes=24|quote=My name is Penny Phillips and I'm the cartoon voice of Krazy Kat}}. Rebroadcast on ] on February 16, 2019.</ref> while ] voiced Ignatz. The recurring character Officer Bull Pupp also appeared often in this series, though his love of Krazy did not play a role in very many of the stories. ] and ] did the music for most of the episodes.<ref name ="Crafton"/> Most of the episodes are available on DVD.

=== Comic book adaptation ===
In 1951, ] revived the characters for a run of comic books. All five issues were drawn by cartoonist ], best known for his '']'' comic books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-krazy-kat-4-1952-soups-on.html|title=from 'Krazy Kat' #4, 1952: soup's on!|first=Frank M.|last=Young|work=Stanley Stories|date=August 9, 2008|access-date=October 7, 2011|archive-date=October 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004222438/http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-krazy-kat-4-1952-soups-on.html|url-status=live}}</ref> While the general plot premise is reminiscent of Herriman's strip, the look and feel are entirely different: firmly in the visual and written style of 1950s ] strips for children. Krazy is male in this version of the strip while Ignatz is female. This "Krazy Kat" also made several one-shot appearances in Dell's '']'' series, from 1953 through 1956 (#s 454, 504, 548, 619, 696)<ref>{{cite web|title=Dell Four Color Comics |url=http://www.dellfourcolorcomics.com/Comics/DellFourColor/DellFour-ColorSeries2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721005015/http://www.dellfourcolorcomics.com/Comics/DellFourColor/DellFour-ColorSeries2/ |archive-date=July 21, 2009}}</ref> and was reprinted in some ] and Page Comics over the next decade.

== Chronology of formats ==
The strip went through several format changes during its run, each of which impacted the artwork and the narratives that the form of the strip could accommodate. What follows are the landmarks, which can also help to date the era of a given strip.

* '''July 26, 1910:''' First "beaning" of Kat by Mouse at bottom of '']''. Strip is not sectioned off, but a detail at the bottom of the panels. Strip as a whole tended to run 4&nbsp;inches × 13&nbsp;inches. Soon the Kat and Mouse were a five-panel 1½ inch strip at the bottom of the cartoon.<ref name="MOD 55">McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 55.</ref>
* '''1911:''' First brief run of ''Krazy and I. Mouse'' standalone strips (probably as a replacement to ''The Family Upstairs''). Also, the characters briefly take over the strip for a couple of periods in '''1912''' (at least once, while the Dingbats are "on holiday" in '''July 1912''').
* '''October 28, 1913:''' ''Krazy Kat'' debuts as a five-panel daily vertical strip which runs down the side of a full comics page. This remains its daily format until sometime in 1920.<ref name="MOD 57">McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 57.</ref>
* '''April 23, 1916:''' First black and white full page Sunday strip.
* '''March 4 – October 30, 1920:''' The "Panoramic Dailies" period, where Herriman is allowed to experiment wildly in an unbroken daily horizontal 3 × 13&nbsp;inch space.
* '''November 1920 on:''' Herriman is constrained to a more conventional daily horizontal format containing three equal split sections, with the center section further split in two. This allows the strip to be run full page, half page or a third of a page, according to editorial whim. From September 13 to October 15, 1921, Herriman regains some control (no split center section) and resumes the previous years' format experiments.
* '''January 7 – March 11, 1922:''' In the ''New York Journal'', 10 weeks of Saturday full-page color strips, in addition to the ongoing Sunday full page black-and-white strips (in other words, two original full-page strips every week). This is then canceled due to its lack of noticeable commercial success, compared to the new Saturday color sections in out-of-town Hearst papers which contained no ''Krazy Kat''.<ref>''A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K'', 1–3</ref>
* '''August 1925 to September 1929:''' Sundays are confined to 3-row, split-middle-line format allowing some papers to reduce cartoon's size and reformat into two daily-sized rows.<ref name="MOD 77">McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 77.</ref>
* '''Summer 1934:''' Full page Sunday strips cease entirely, for roughly a year.
* '''June 1, 1935:''' Full page Sunday strips resume, now in color, until Herriman's death.
* '''December 11, 1938:''' "Optional" horizontal panel begins running on bottom of Sunday strips, as placeholder for potential advertising.
* '''June 3, 1944:''' Final daily strip published.
* '''June 25, 1944:''' Final Sunday strip published.

== Legacy ==
In 1934, in the live-action film '']'', starring ] and ], the cat playing the fiddle (Peter Gordon) is repeatedly hit in the head with a brick by a mouse (a capuchin monkey) costumed to look similar to Disney's ].<ref>{{cite book|last=McDonnell|first=Patrick|title=Krazy Kat. The Comic Art of George Herriman|publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers|location=New York|date=1985|page=76}}</ref>

In 1974, the ] ] ("O'Con") introduced the ],<ref name=ComicsKingdom>{{cite web|work=]|url=https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2018/04/25/ask-a-cartoonist-what-we-ve-learned-from-krazy-kat|date=April 25, 2018|title=Ask A Cartoonist: What We've Learned from Krazy Kat|author=Tea|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122190404/https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2018/04/25/ask-a-cartoonist-what-we-ve-learned-from-krazy-kat|url-status=live}}</ref> a gold brick presented to the show's guest of honor.<ref name=TCJ219>{{cite news|author-link=R. C. Harvey|last=Harvey|first=R. C.|title=Blood & Thunder: Two for Cho|work=]|number=219|date=Jan 2000|page= 3|quote=...the Ignatz Award was originated in the '70s at the Orlando Con, a pioneering comic convention staged mainly by Jim Ivey.}}</ref> Recipients of the O'Con Ignatz included ],<ref>{{cite news|last=Boyar|first=Jay|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1985/05/12/the-real-don-martin-we-all-grew-up-on-his-cartoons-fortunately-so-did-he/|title=The Real Don Martin: We All Grew Up On His Cartoons. Fortunately, So Did He|work=]|date=May 12, 1985|access-date=2023-11-22|archive-date=2013-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228195921/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1985-05-12/news/0300060290_1_mad-don-martin-ridiculous-pictures|url-status=live}}</ref> ], ], ], ],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sptimes.com/Comics/addis_bio.shtml|title=About Don Addis|work=]| access-date=Jan 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060702084221/http://www.sptimes.com/Comics/addis_bio.shtml|archive-date=July 2, 2006}}</ref> ], and ].<ref name=ComicsKingdom /> This tradition continued until O'Con's demise in 1994. Soon after, beginning in 1997, the ] (SPX) began distributing their own ] bricks to the winners of various annual awards. During his tenure as SPX Ignatz Award administrator, Jeff Alexander<ref name=MCE>{{cite web|last=McElhatton|first=Greg|url=http://www.gregmce.com/2011/01/30/goodbye-jeff|title=Goodbye, Jeff|website=GregMcE.com|date=Jan 30, 2011|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122190404/http://www.gregmce.com/2011/01/30/goodbye-jeff/|url-status=live}}</ref> drew a strip for the annual award program in Herriman's style.<ref name=MCE /><ref>{{cite news|last=MacDonald|first=Heidi|author-link=Heidi MacDonald|url=http://comicsbeat.com/rip-jeff-alexander|title=RIP: Jeff Alexander|work=The Beat|date=Jan 31, 2011|access-date=November 22, 2023|archive-date=November 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110192854/https://www.comicsbeat.com/rip-jeff-alexander/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1984, ] paid homage to Krazy Kat in her song "Yeah Yeah", overdubbing the phrase in Krazy Kat's vocal style — "Ignatz, I love you" — during the second verse.

In 1994, in the live-action film '']'', starring ] and ]; Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Officer Pupp make an appearance, printed on a pale blue T-shirt worn by Jackson's character Jules, who had to hastily change his clothes after an accidental shooting in a car.

In 1999, ''Krazy Kat'' was rated #1 in a '']'' list of the best American comics of the 20th century; the list included both ]s and comic strips.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2302|title=Kreem of the Komics!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908064542/http://www2.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2302 |date=2012-09-08|work=]|location=Detroit|archive-date=Sep 8, 2012}}</ref> In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the ] series of ] ].

In 2004, a picture of Krazy Kat appeared on the wall of the Goofy Goober bar in '']'', alongside a picture of ].

''Krazy Kat'' continues to inspire artists and cartoonists. ]'s ] shorts, set in a similar visual pastiche of the American Southwest, are among the most famous cartoons to draw upon Herriman's work.<ref name="Bloom" /> ], creator of the current strip '']'' and co-author of ''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman'', cites it as his "foremost influence".<ref>{{cite web|first=Patrick|last=McDonnell|author-link=Patrick McDonnell|url=http://muttscomics.com/comicart/masters.asp |title=Comic Masters|access-date= January 13, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050318001851/http://muttscomics.com/comicart/masters.asp |archive-date=March 18, 2005|website=MuttsComics.com}}</ref> ] of '']'' fame named ''Krazy Kat'' among his three major influences (along with '']'' and '']'').<ref>Watterson, pp. 17–18.</ref> Watterson would revive Herriman's practice of employing varied, unpredictable panel layouts in his Sunday strips. ]<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Charles Schulz interview|interviewer1=] |interviewer2= ] |magazine= ]|number= 31|date= January 1992|url=http://www.krazy.com/kuotes.htm|access-date=January 13, 2005|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050208001505/http://www.krazy.com/kuotes.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2005}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22822 |work=The Onion AV Club| title=Interviews: Will Eisner|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223227/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/22822 |archive-date=2007-09-26|date=September 27, 2000|access-date=January 13, 2005|interviewer=Tasha Robinson}}</ref> both said that they were drawn towards cartooning partly because of the impact ''Krazy Kat'' made on them in their formative years. ]'s '']'' was styled after ''Krazy Kat''.

],<ref name= "Comics in Context">{{cite web|url=http://comics.ign.com/articles/595/595603p2.html |access-date=January 13, 2005|title=Comics in Context #20: This Belongs in a Museum
|first=Peter |last=Sanderson|author-link=Peter Sanderson|website=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070309105929/http://comics.ign.com/articles/595/595603p2.html|archive-date=Mar 9, 2007}}</ref> ],<ref name="Comics in Context"/> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.d-log.info/hunt/huntint.html|title=The D'log Interview for Artsnet: HUNT EMERSON|access-date=January 13, 2005|work=Artsnet|publisher=D'log|archive-date=March 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311125648/http://www.d-log.info/hunt/huntint.html|url-status=live}}</ref> have all had ''Krazy Kat''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s imprint recognized in their work. ]'s comic strip ''Kokopelli & Company'' is set in "Kokonino County", an homage to Herriman's exotic locale. ] admires the strip, and his frequent publisher, ], is currently reissuing its entire run in volumes designed by Ware (which also include reproductions of Herriman miscellanea, some of it donated by Ware). In the 1980s, Sam Hurt's syndicated strip '']'' showed a clear Herriman influence, particularly in its continually morphing backgrounds.

Among non-cartoonists, ]'s 1987 novel ''Krazy Kat'' uses Herriman's characters to analyze humanity's reaction to nuclear weapons, ]'s novel '']'' (also 1987) uses a quote from the cartoon in an epigraph ("ZIP... POW... LOVES ME") while ] of the rock band ] has a ] of Krazy and Ignatz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/rem-faq/part1/|title=Rec.music.rem FAQ (#A15)|work=The R.E.M. - Usenet|access-date=January 13, 2005|date=Jan 5, 1997|archive-date=January 7, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050107085643/http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/rem-faq/part1/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the ] TV special '']'', Garfield plays a stunt double for Krazy Kat. In one 1989 '']'' strip by ], Krazy and Ignatz can be seen watching Binkley, Oliver, and Opus float through a Herriman-esque landscape; and in a couple of '']'' strips, Krazy and Ignatz are referred to in regards to a printed ] once worn by Edda during her preteen years.<ref>{{cite web|first=Brooke|last=McEldowney|author-link=Brooke McEldowney|url=https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/01/22|title=9 Chickweed Lane|date=January 22, 2019|publisher=GoComics.com|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-date=January 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082827/https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/01/22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Brooke|last=McEldowney|url=https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/01/23|title=9 Chickweed Lane|date=January 23, 2019|publisher=GoComics.com|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-date=January 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082854/https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/01/23|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Reprints and compilations ==
For many decades, only a small percentage of Herriman's strip was available in reprinted form.<ref name=":0" /> The first ''Krazy Kat'' collection, published by ] in 1946, just two years after Herriman's death, gathered 200 selected strips.<ref>Tashlin.</ref> In Europe, the cartoons were first reprinted in 1965 by the Italian magazine ''Linus'', and appeared in the pages of the French monthly ''Charlie Mensuel'' starting in 1970.<ref>Exhibit catalog from the ''Musée de la bande dessinée'' in ], 1997, cited in ''BDM 2005–2006'', by Bera, Denni and Mellot.</ref> In 1969, ] produced a single hardcover collection of selected episodes and sequences spanning the entire length of the strip's run. The Netherlands' Real Free Press published five issues of ''Krazy Kat Komix'' in 1974–1976, containing a few hundred strips apiece; each of the issues' covers was designed by ]. However, owing to the difficulty of tracking down high-quality copies of the original newspapers, no plans for a comprehensive collection of ''Krazy Kat'' strips surfaced until the 1980s.

All of the ]s from 1916 to 1924 were reprinted by ] in cooperation with Turtle Island Press. Beginning in 1988, the intent was to eventually reprint every Sunday ''Krazy Kat'', but this planned series was aborted when Eclipse ceased business in 1992. Beginning in 2002, ] resumed reprinting Sunday ''Krazy Kat''s where Eclipse left off; in 2008, their tenth release completed the run with 1944. Fantagraphics then reissued, in the same format, the strips previously printed in Eclipse's now out-of-print volumes.<ref>''There is a Heppy Lend, Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay-'', 119.</ref> Both the Eclipse and Fantagraphics reprints include additional rarities such as older George Herriman cartoons predating ''Krazy Kat''.

In 1990, ], in association with Remco Worldservice Books, reprinted two volumes of color Sunday strips dating from 1935 to 1937, but like Eclipse, they collapsed before they could continue the series.<ref name="Bibliography">{{cite web |url=http://krazy.com/biblio.htm |title=Bibliography |last1=Campbell |first1=Peter |website=Coconino County |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090912084757/http://krazy.com/biblio.htm |archive-date=2009-09-12 |url-status=dead |access-date=2015-05-18}}</ref> ''The 3-D Zone'' #5, published by The 3-D Zone in June 1987, features reprints of ''Krazy Kat'' strips converted into 3-D, and includes two pairs of red/blue 3-D glasses.

The ]s for 1921 to 1923 were reprinted by Pacific Comics Club, in two series of different sizes. '']'' published all of the daily strips from September 8, 1930 through December 31, 1934. In 2007, Fantagraphics offered a one-shot reprint of daily strips from 1910s and 1920s, and plans a more complete reprinting of the daily strip in the future.

Scattered Sundays and dailies have appeared in several collections, including the ] book reprinted by ], but the most readily available sampling of Sundays and dailies from throughout the strip's run is ''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman'', published by ] in 1986.<ref name="Bibliography"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ignatzmouse.net/us/mouse-biblio.html |title=The Mouse Bibliography |access-date=2006-01-14 |archive-date=2006-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111120150/http://www.ignatzmouse.net/us/mouse-biblio.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It includes a detailed biography of Herriman and was, for a long time, the only in-print book to republish ''Krazy Kat'' strips from after 1940. Although it contains over 200 strips, including many color Sundays, it is light on material from 1923 to 1937. Small selections of dailies appear in literary anthologies published by ].<ref>Re-readings, Volume III (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2018), pages 87-95 and coda; Re-readings, Volume IV (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2019), coda; Re-readings, Volume V (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2020), coda.</ref>

=== Henry Holt & Co. ===
* ''Krazy Kat'' (1946): Introduction by E.E. Cummings. Hardcover B&W compilation of daily and Sunday strips, concentrating on 1930–1944.
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|1943-04-03
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|1946-002a
|1941-03-18
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|1946-002b
|1941-03-20
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|1946-002c
|1941-03-21
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|1946-002d
|1941-03-22
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|1946-003
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|11/17/192x?
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|1946-004
|1936-03-15
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|1946-007
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|1933-11-12
|Sunday
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|1946-010
|1937-06-13
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|1946-011
|1937-06-06
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|1946-012
|1941-11-23
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|1946-013
|1943-05-02
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|1946-014
|1942-07-26
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|1946-015
|1936-10-25
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|1946-016
|1942-05-10
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|1946-017a
|1942-04-21
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|1946-017b
|1942-04-22
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|1946-017c
|1942-04-23
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|1946-017d
|1942-04-24
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|1946-018a
|1942-04-25
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|1946-018b
|1943-09-02
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|1946-018c
|1942-11-14
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|1946-019
|1944-01-30
|Sunday
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|1944-02-06
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|1943-07-04
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|1946-022
|1942-04-05
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|1946-023
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|1941-06-01
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|1946-025
|1941-04-27
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|1943-09-19
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|1946-027
|1943-11-14
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|1946-028
|1942-06-21
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|1946-029a
|1943-03-03
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|1946-029b
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|?/?/1931?
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|1946-029c
|1934-11-12
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|1946-029d
|1934-11-13
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|1946-030
|1943-11-21
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|1942-12-20
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|1946-032a
|1936-07-06
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|1946-032b
|1936-07-08
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|Tiger Tea
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|1946-032c
|1936-07-09
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|Tiger Tea
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|1946-032d
|1936-07-10
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|Tiger Tea
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|1946-033a
|1936-07-11
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|Tiger Tea
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|1936-07-27
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|1936-07-29
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|Tiger Tea
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|1936-09-26
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|Tiger Tea
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|1937-03-10
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|1936-08-19
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|1937-03-11
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|1930-06-18
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|1930-07-04
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|1930-08-06
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|Kuku Kat
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|1930-10-10
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|Kuku Kat
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|1930-10-11
|daily
|Kuku Kat
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|1946-052a
|1930-10-14
|daily
|Kuku Kat
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|1946-052b
|1930-10-15
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|Kuku Kat
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|1930-10-17
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|Kuku Kat
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|1946-053
|1933-06-25
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|1946-055
|1941-03-23
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|1946-056
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|1921-07-24
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|1946-058a
|1932-10-10
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|1932-10-11
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|1932-10-15
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|1946-058d
|1932-10-28
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|1946-059
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|1946-060a
|1942-10-09
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|1931-06-08
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|1934-07-24
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|1946-061
|1941-08-24
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|1946-062
|1921-09-11
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|1946-063
|1938-04-24
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|1943-08-01
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|1933-08-23
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|1946-065b
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|1932-06-18
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|1932-06-14
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|1940-07-28
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|1940-07-07
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|1940-04-24
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|1940-06-27
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|1940-07-03
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|1940-07-21
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|1940-06-29
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|1940-03-15
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|1941-01-18
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|1940-04-26
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|1939-12-11
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|1938-08-14
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|1937-12-26
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|1932-01-19
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|1932-01-20
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|1932-01-21
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|1932-01-22
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|1932-01-23
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|1932-01-27
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|1946-084c
|1932-01-28
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|1932-01-29
|daily
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|1932-01-30
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|1932-02-04
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|1939-12-03
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|1943-10-03
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|1937-04-11
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|1939-07-09
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|1941-04-21
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|1941-04-22
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|1946-092c
|1941-04-25
|daily
|
|-
|1946-092d
|1941-04-26
|daily
|
|-
|1946-093
|1944-03-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-094
|1936-11-01
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-095
|1943-01-03
|Sunday
|poss misdated as 1/2
|-
|1946-096a
|1932-08-30
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat excerpt
|-
|1946-096b
|1932-08-23
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-096c
|1932-08-25
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-096d
|1932-08-31
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-097a
|1932-10-04
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-097b
|1932-09-05
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-097c
|1932-09-07
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-097d
|1932-06-28
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-098a
|1932-09-16
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-098b
|1932-09-29
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-098c
|1932-09-30
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-098d
|1932-09-24
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-099a
|1932-09-12
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-099b
|1932-09-20
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-099c
|1932-09-21
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-099d
|1932-09-22
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-100a
|1932-09-12
|daily
|repeats from p99a
|-
|1946-100b
|1932-09-14
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-100c
|1932-09-15
|daily
|Uncle Tom Kat
|-
|1946-100d
|1932-09-28
|daily
|end Uncle Tom Kat excerpt
|-
|1946-101
|1941-09-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-102
|1942-05-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-103
|1944-05-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-104
|1941-12-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-105
|1941-03-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-106a
|1942-04-01
|daily
|
|-
|1946-106b
|
|daily
|3/29/19xx?
|-
|1946-106c
|1931-07-16
|daily
|
|-
|1946-106d
|
|daily
|5/2/19xx?
|-
|1946-107
|1933-12-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-108
|1920-05-09
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-109
|1933-02-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-110a
|1932-03-23
|daily
|
|-
|1946-110b
|1931-06-01
|daily
|
|-
|1946-110c
|1931-06-02
|daily
|
|-
|1946-110d
|1931-06-04
|daily
|
|-
|1946-111
|1919-08-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-112
|1919-09-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-113
|1933-05-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-114
|1936-01-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-115a
|1931-10-15
|daily
|?year
|-
|1946-115b
|1931-02-21
|daily
|
|-
|1946-115c
|
|daily
|3/18/193x?; not 31
|-
|1946-115d
|1935-10-28
|daily
|
|-
|1946-116
|1933-03-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-117
|1942-01-25
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-118
|1942-08-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-119
|1937-04-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-120a
|1932-06-21
|daily
|
|-
|1946-120b
|1932-05-27
|daily
|
|-
|1946-120c
|1932-06-22
|daily
|
|-
|1946-120d
|1931-10-26
|daily
|
|-
|1946-121
|1936-08-01
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-122
|1942-07-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-123
|1935-11-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-124
|1937-03-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-125
|1939-07-02
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-126
|1937-10-24
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-127
|1941-12-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-128
|1944-02-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-129
|1941-01-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-130a
|1944-04-27
|daily
|
|-
|1946-130b
|1943-11-15
|daily
|
|-
|1946-130c
|1943-11-18
|daily
|only 3 dailies on page
|-
|1946-131
|1944-02-20
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-132
|1940-05-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-133
|1937-01-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-134
|1943-10-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-135
|1938-08-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-136
|1938-04-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-137
|1944-04-02
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-138
|1941-05-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-139a
|
|daily
|3/14/193x?
|-
|1946-139b
|1935-12-11
|daily
|
|-
|1946-139c
|1932-12-19
|daily
|
|-
|1946-139d
|
|daily
|4/2/19xx?
|-
|1946-140
|1942-09-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-141
|1939-11-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-142a
|1941-12-16
|daily
|
|-
|1946-142b
|1941-12-17
|daily
|
|-
|1946-142c
|1943-07-27
|daily
|
|-
|1946-142d
|1941-03-31
|daily
|
|-
|1946-143
|1944-03-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-144
|1938-12-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-145
|1940-02-25
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-146
|1942-08-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-147
|1943-09-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-148
|1939-02-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-149
|1943-06-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-150a
|1932-11-21
|daily
|
|-
|1946-150b
|1932-11-25
|daily
|
|-
|1946-150c
|1932-11-24
|daily
|
|-
|1946-150d
|1931-03-13
|daily
|
|-
|1946-151
|1937-05-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-152
|1942-07-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-153
|1940-03-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-154a
|1938-12-12
|daily
|
|-
|1946-154b
|
|daily
|7/9/19xx?
|-
|1946-154c
|1941-12-02
|daily
|
|-
|1946-154d
|
|daily
|2/12/19xx?
|-
|1946-155
|1934-08-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-156
|1917-06-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-157
|1941-07-13
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-158
|1934-01-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-159a
|1939-06-20
|daily
|
|-
|1946-159b
|1932-07-11
|daily
|
|-
|1946-159c
|1931-11-04
|daily
|
|-
|1946-159d
|1931-10-29
|daily
|
|-
|1946-160
|1940-01-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-161
|1943-01-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-162
|1936-07-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-163
|1940-03-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-164a
|1930-05-02
|daily
|
|-
|1946-164b
|1933-09-01
|daily
|
|-
|1946-164c
|1935-02-23
|daily
|?year
|-
|1946-164d
|1932-04-11
|daily
|
|-
|1946-165
|1922-11-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-166
|1918-08-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-167
|1938-02-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-168
|1943-03-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-169
|1942-09-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-170
|1943-10-24
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-171a
|1943-09-29
|daily
|
|-
|1946-171b
|1943-06-07
|daily
|
|-
|1946-171c
|1943-06-15
|daily
|
|-
|1946-171d
|1943-03-05
|daily
|
|-
|1946-172
|1941-11-02
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-173
|1944-03-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-174
|1944-01-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-175
|1936-12-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-176
|1943-12-31
|Sunday
|strip dated 31st
|-
|1946-177a
|1932-04-13
|daily
|
|-
|1946-177b
|1932-03-21
|daily
|
|-
|1946-177c
|1932-03-25
|daily
|
|-
|1946-177d
|1933-09-02
|daily
|
|-
|1946-178
|1941-11-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|1946-179
|1942-11-22
|Sunday
|-
|1946-180
|1943-08-22
|Sunday
|-
|1946-181
|1939-10-22
|Sunday
|-
|1946-182
|1943-12-05
|Sunday
|-
|1946-183
|1940-05-12
|Sunday
|-
|1946-184
|1938-04-03
|Sunday
|-
|1946-185
|1936-12-13
|Sunday
|}

=== Grosset & Dunlap/Nostalgia Press/Madison Square Press ===
* ''Krazy Kat: A Classic from the Golden Age of Comics'' (1969, 1975): An entirely different compilation of dailies and Sundays, with examples from the entire run of the strip—including 23 ] bottom strips. Reprints the e.e. cummings introduction from the Henry Holt volume. 8 pages in full color; some later editions have daily strips reproduced in blue ink. {{ISBN|0-448-11945-5}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-448-11951-X}} (paperback)
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Contents of book:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! Notes
|-
|1969-006-7
|1941-11-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-008-016
|
|
|cummings introduction
|-
|1969-018-021
|
|daily
|several Dingbats w/ Krazy under
|-
|1969-022-032
|
|daily
|21, from under Dingbats, 1911–12
|-
|1969-034
|1919-11-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-035
|1920-02-15
|Sunday
|repeat of 11/16/19
|-
|1969-036-7
|1919-07-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-038-9
|1920-05-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-040-1
|1916-09-24
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-042-3
|1922-06-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-044-5
|1919-12-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-046-7
|1919-12-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-048
|1928-01-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-050a
|
|daily
|1/30/193x?
|-
|1969-050b
|
|daily
|5/19/194x?
|-
|1969-050c
|
|daily
|1/31/193x?
|-
|1969-050d
|
|daily
|5/20/194x?
|-
|1969-051a
|1940-05-27
|daily
|
|-
|1969-051b
|1940-08-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-051c
|1940-08-20
|daily
|
|-
|1969-051d
|
|daily
|4/20/19xx?
|-
|1969-052a
|
|daily
|2/25/192x?
|-
|1969-052b
|
|daily
|2/27/192x?
|-
|1969-053a
|
|daily
|2/28/192x?
|-
|1969-053b
|
|daily
|seq w/ above 3
|-
|1969-054a
|
|daily
|3/9/193x?
|-
|1969-054b
|
|daily
|3/10/193x?
|-
|1969-054c
|
|daily
|3/11/193x?
|-
|1969-054d
|
|daily
|3/12/193x?
|-
|1969-055
|1935-02-24
|daily
|
|-
|1969-056
|1927-01-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-057a
|1938-08-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-057b
|1938-08-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-057c
|1938-08-17
|daily
|
|-
|1969-057d
|1938-08-18
|daily
|
|-
|1969-058a
|
|daily
|8/19/193x?
|-
|1969-058b
|
|daily
|8/20/193x?
|-
|1969-058c
|
|daily
|5/2/193x?
|-
|1969-058d
|
|daily
|5/3/193x?
|-
|1969-059a
|1943-03-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-059b
|1943-03-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-059c
|1943-03-10
|daily
|
|-
|1969-059d
|
|daily
|2/28/193x?
|-
|1969-060a
|1935-09-11
|daily
|
|-
|1969-060b
|1935-09-13
|daily
|
|-
|1969-060c
1969-060c
|1935-09-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-060d
|1935-09-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-061
|1921-05-08
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-062
|1930-12-14
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-063a
|
|daily
|7/17/194x?
|-
|1969-063b
|
|daily
|2/2/193x?
|-
|1969-063c
|
|daily
|1/23/193x?
|-
|1969-063d
|
|daily
|1/26/193x?
|-
|1969-064a
|
|daily
|2/1/193x?
|-
|1969-064b
|1943-03-02
|daily
|
|-
|1969-064c
|1942-08-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-064d
|1943-11-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-065a
|
|daily
|10/23/193x?
|-
|1969-065b
|
|daily
|10/7/193x?
|-
|1969-065c
|
|daily
|10/11/193x?
|-
|1969-065d
|
|daily
|10/24/193x?
|-
|1969-066a
|
|daily
|10/25/193x?
|-
|1969-066b
|
|daily
|10/26/193x?
|-
|1969-066c
|
|daily
|10/27/193x?
|-
|1969-066d
|
|daily
|10/28/193x?
|-
|1969-067
|1944-06-04
|
|
|-
|1969-068
|1937-10-17
|
|
|-
|1969-069a
|
|daily
|7/29/193x?
|-
|1969-069b
|
|daily
|10/14/193x?
|-
|1969-069c
|
|daily
|10/11/193x?
|-
|1969-069d
|
|daily
|10/9/193x?
|-
|1969-070a
|
|daily
|9/1/193x?
|-
|1969-070b
|
|daily
|1/17/193x?
|-
|1969-070c
|
|daily
|9/29/193x?
|-
|1969-070d
|
|daily
|9/30/193x?
|-
|1969-071a
|
|daily
|7/11/193x?
|-
|1969-071b
|
|daily
|7/12/193x?
|-
|1969-071c
|
|daily
|7/13/193x?
|-
|1969-071d
|
|daily
|7/16/193x?
|-
|1969-072
|1925-05-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-073a
|
|daily
|3/25/193x?
|-
|1969-073b
|
|daily
|3/26/193x?
|-
|1969-073c
|
|daily
|3/27/193x?
|-
|1969-073d
|
|daily
|3/28/193x?
|-
|1969-074a
|1940-08-21
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-074b
|
|daily
|8/1/1940?
|-
|1969-074c
|
|daily
|7/23/1940?
|-
|1969-074d
|1940-08-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-075a
|
|daily
|12/11/193x?
|-
|1969-075b
|
|daily
|3/26/1933x?
|-
|1969-075c
|
|daily
|5/15/193x?
|-
|1969-075d
|
|daily
|9/21/193x?
|-
|1969-076
|
|Sunday
|6/24/1934? Poss misdated
|-
|1969-077
|1933-05-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-078a
|1941-04-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-078b
|1941-04-10
|daily
|
|-
|1969-078c
|
|daily
|5/19/193x?
|-
|1969-078d
|
|daily
|5/20/193x?
|-
|1969-079a
|1941-02-01
|daily
|
|-
|1969-079b
|
|daily
|6/5/193x?
|-
|1969-079c
|
|daily
|2/20/193x?
|-
|1969-079d
|
|daily
|7/6/194x?
|-
|1969-080
|1937-08-08
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-082
|1933-11-12
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-083
|1938-09-25
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-084
|1939-06-11
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-085
|1916-09-03
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-086
|1919-09-07
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-087
|1942-01-18
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-088
|1917-12-30
|Sunday
|color section
|-
|1969-090a
|1936-06-01
|daily
|
|-
|1969-090b
|1936-06-02
|daily
|start 1969 Tiger Tea excerpt
|-
|1969-090c
|1936-06-12
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-091a
|1936-06-13
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-091b
|1936-06-15
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-091c
|1936-06-16
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-092a
|1936-06-17
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-092b
|1936-06-18
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-092c
|1936-06-19
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-093a
|1936-06-20
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-093b
|1936-06-22
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-093c
|1936-06-23
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-094a
|1936-06-24
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-094b
|1936-06-25
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-094c
|1936-06-26
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-095a
|1936-06-27
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-095b
|1936-06-29
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-095c
|1936-06-30
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-096a
|1936-07-01
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-096b
|1936-07-02
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-096c
|1936-07-27
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-097a
|1936-07-28
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-097b
|1936-07-29
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-097c
|1936-09-14
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-098a
|1936-09-15
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-098a
|1936-09-15
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-098b
|1937-02-22
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-098c
|1937-02-23
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-099a
|1937-02-24
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-099b
|1937-02-25
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-099c
|1937-02-26
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-100a
|1937-02-27
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-100b
|1936-12-07
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-100c
|1936-12-05
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-100c
|1936-12-05
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-101a
|1936-12-14
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-101b
|1936-12-15
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-101c
|1936-12-16
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-102a
|1936-12-17
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-102b
|1936-12-18
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-102c
|1936-12-19
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-103a
|1936-12-21
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-103b
|1936-12-22
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-103c
|1936-12-23
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-104a
|1936-12-24
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-104b
|1936-12-25
|daily
|Tiger Tea
|-
|1969-104c
|1936-12-26
|daily
|end 1969 Tiger Tea excerpt
|-
|1969-106
|1931-01-18
|Sunday
|repeat of 1/28/1923
|-
|1969-107a
|1935-12-02
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-107b
|1935-12-03
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-107c
|1935-12-04
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-107d
|1935-12-05
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-108a
|1936-02-04
|daily
|
|-
|1969-108b
|1936-02-05
|daily
|
|-
|1969-108c
|1936-02-07
|daily
|
|-
|1969-108d
|1936-02-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-109
|1919-06-29
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-110
|
|Sunday
|Kat phone antics
|-
|1969-111a
|1943-09-23
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-111b
|
|daily
|9/14/194x?
|-
|1969-111c
|1942-01-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-111d
|
|daily
|11/2/194x?
|-
|1969-112a
|1938-01-29
|daily
|
|-
|1969-112b
|
|daily
|7/28/19xx?
|-
|1969-112c
|
|daily
|3/9/193x?
|-
|1969-112d
|1938-07-27
|daily
|
|-
|1969-113
|1933-02-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-114
|1932-01-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-115a
|1943-06-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-115b
|1943-06-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-115c
|1943-06-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-115d
|1943-06-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-116a
|
|daily
|1/6/193x?
|-
|1969-116b
|
|daily
|1/7/193x?
|-
|1969-116c
|
|daily
|1/4/193x?
|-
|1969-116d
|
|daily
|1/5/193x?
|-
|1969-117a
|1927-04-26
|daily
|
|-
|1969-117b
|1926-11-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-118a
|1940-10-04
|daily
|
|-
|1969-118b
|1937-05-21
|daily
|
|-
|1969-118c
|1937-05-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-118d
|1940-10-05
|daily
|-
|1969-119a
|1926-05-26
|daily
|-
|1969-119b
|1926-09-30
|daily
|-
|1969-120
|1933-04-09
|Sunday
|-
|1969-122a
|1937-12-20
|daily
|-
|1969-122b
|1937-12-21
|daily
|-
|1969-122c
|1937-12-22
|daily
|-
|1969-122d
|1937-12-23
|daily
|-
|1969-123
|1922-10-15
|Sunday
|-
|1969-124
|1942-08-02
|Sunday
|-
|1969-125a
|1943-05-17
|daily
|-
|1969-125b
|1943-05-18
|daily
|-
|1969-125c
|1942-07-31
|daily
|-
|1969-125d
|1943-05-19
|daily
|-
|1969-126a
|1936-01-20
|daily
|-
|1969-126b
|1936-01-21
|daily
|-
|1969-126c
|1936-01-22
|daily
|-
|1969-126d
|1936-01-23
|daily
|-
|1969-127a
|1943-05-05
|daily
|-
|1969-127b
|1943-05-06
|daily
|-
|1969-127c
|1943-05-07
|daily
|-
|1969-127d
|1943-05-08
|daily
|-
|1969-128
|1920-03-14
|Sunday
|-
|1969-129a
|1942-05-11
|daily
|-
|1969-129b
|1942-05-12
|daily
|-
|1969-129c
|1942-11-02
|daily
|-
|1969-129d
|1942-11-03
|daily
|-
|1969-130a
|1942-11-04
|daily
|-
|1969-130b
|1942-11-05
|daily
|-
|1969-130c
|1942-11-06
|daily
|-
|1969-130d
|1942-11-11
|daily
|-
|1969-131a
|1944-02-10
|daily
|-
|1969-131b
|1944-02-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-131c
|
|daily
|1/12/193x?
|-
|1969-131d
|
|daily
|1/13/193x?
|-
|1969-132
|1941-06-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-133a
|1935-12-30
|daily
|
|-
|1969-133b
|1936-01-02
|daily
|
|-
|1969-133c
|1936-01-03
|daily
|
|-
|1969-133d
|1936-01-04
|daily
|
|-
|1969-134-5
|1917-06-17
|
|
|-
|1969-136
|1928-12-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-137a
|1937-12-24
|daily
|
|-
|1969-137b
|1937-12-25
|daily
|
|-
|1969-137c
|1937-12-27
|daily
|
|-
|1969-137d
|1937-12-28
|daily
|
|-
|1969-138a
|1943-04-12
|daily
|
|-
|1969-138b
|1943-04-13
|daily
|
|-
|1969-138c
|1943-04-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-138d
|1943-04-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-139a
|1943-05-03
|daily
|
|-
|1969-139b
|1943-05-04
|daily
|
|-
|1969-139c
|1939-05-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-139d
|1941-03-09
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-140a
|
|daily
|1/3/193x?
|-
|1969-140b
|
|daily
|1/4/193x?
|-
|1969-140c
|
|daily
|1/5/193x?
|-
|1969-140d
|
|daily
|1/6/193x?
|-
|1969-141
|1941-03-09
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-142
|1933-07-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-143a
|1941-12-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-143b
|1941-12-23
|daily
|
|-
|1969-143c
|1941-12-25
|daily
|
|-
|1969-143d
|1941-12-30
|daily
|
|-
|1969-144a
|
|daily
|11/27/194x?
|-
|1969-144b
|
|daily
|6/13/193x?
|-
|1969-144c
|
|daily
|3/22/193x?
|-
|1969-144d
|
|daily
|3/3/193x?
|-
|1969-145a
|1940-02-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-145b
|1940-02-20
|daily
|
|-
|1969-145c
|1940-02-21
|daily
|
|-
|1969-145d
|1940-02-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-146a
|
|daily
|4/7/193x?
|-
|1969-146b
|
|daily
|2/23/193x?
|-
|1969-146c
|
|daily
|2/24/193x?
|-
|1969-146d
|1939-04-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-147a
|1941-04-07
|daily
|
|-
|1969-147b
|1939-09-20
|daily
|
|-
|1969-147c
|1943-11-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-147d
|1943-04-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-148a
|
|daily
|6/17/194x?
|-
|1969-148b
|1943-04-06
|daily
|
|-
|1969-148c
|1943-04-07
|daily
|
|-
|1969-148d
|1943-04-22
|daily
|
|-
|1969-149a
|1938-03-07
|daily
|
|-
|1969-149b
|1938-03-08
|daily
|
|-
|1969-149c
|1938-03-09
|daily
|
|-
|1969-149d
|1938-03-10
|daily
|
|-
|1969-150a
|1938-03-11
|daily
|
|-
|1969-150b
|1938-03-12
|daily
|
|-
|1969-150c
|1938-03-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-150d
|1938-03-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-151a
|1938-03-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-151b
|1938-03-17
|daily
|
|-
|1969-151c
|1938-03-18
|daily
|
|-
|1969-151d
|1938-03-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-152a
|
|daily
|12/29/194x?
|-
|1969-152b
|
|daily
|12/30/194x?
|-
|1969-152c
|
|daily
|12/31/194x?
|-
|1969-152d
|
|daily
|1/1/194x?
|-
|1969-154a
|
|daily
|4/2/19xx?
|-
|1969-154b
|
|daily
|4/11/19xx?
|-
|1969-154c
|1943-09-17
|daily
|
|-
|1969-154d
|
|daily
|10/28/194x?
|-
|1969-155a
|
|daily
|3/28/1944x?
|-
|1969-155b
|1943-10-18
|daily
|
|-
|1969-155c
|1936-01-27
|daily
|?year
|-
|1969-155d
|
|daily
|1/5/19xx?
|-
|1969-156
|1942-07-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-157a
|1943-10-28
|daily
|
|-
|1969-157b
|
|daily
|3/7/19xx?
|-
|1969-157c
|1940-11-21
|daily
|
|-
|1969-157d
|
|daily
|7/1/194x?
|-
|1969-158a
|1927-02-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-158b
|1927-02-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-159a
|1939-07-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-159b
|1939-07-17
|daily
|
|-
|1969-159c
|1939-07-18
|daily
|
|-
|1969-159d
|1939-07-20
|daily
|
|-
|1969-160a
|
|daily
|6/7/193x?
|-
|1969-160b
|1941-01-10
|daily
|
|-
|1969-160c
|
|daily
|11/29/193x?
|-
|1969-160d
|1943-06-03
|daily
|
|-
|1969-161
|1932-03-13
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-162a
|
|daily
|12/25/193x?
|-
|1969-162b
|
|daily
|12/26/193x?
|-
|1969-162c
|1943-11-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-162d
|1943-11-20
|daily
|
|-
|1969-163a
|1937-07-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-163b
|1937-07-15
|daily
|
|-
|1969-163c
|1937-07-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-163d
|1937-07-17
|daily
|
|-
|1969-164a
|
|daily
|6/20/19xx?
|-
|1969-164b
|1941-05-21
|daily
|
|-
|1969-164c
|1941-06-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-164d
|1942-10-19
|daily
|
|-
|1969-165
|1916-10-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|1969-166a
|1941-06-16
|daily
|
|-
|1969-166b
|
|daily
|1/5/194x?
|-
|1969-166c
|1941-07-14
|daily
|
|-
|1969-166d
|
|daily
|6/13/194x?
|-
|1969-167a
|1941-12-06
|daily
|
|-
|1969-167b
|1941-03-31
|daily
|
|-
|1969-167c
|1944-05-02
|daily
|
|-
|1969-167d
|1944-05-29
|daily
|
|-
|1969-168
|1917-06-17
|Sunday
|epitaph from end of strip
|-
|1969-Back
|1943-05-09
|Sunday
|color
|}

=== Street Enterprises (Menomonee Falls) ===
* ''(George Herriman's) Krazy Kat Vol. 1, No. 1'' (March 1973): 32-page newsprint magazine reprinting 60 daily strips from July 3 – October 28, 1933. Inside cover claims inaccurately that they are from 1935.

=== Real Free Press ===
* ''Krazy Kat Komix, Nos. 1–5'' (1974–1976): ], ed. The 5-issue magazine also features other Herriman strips.

=== Hyperion Press ===
* ''The Family Upstairs: Introducing Krazy Kat: The Complete Strip, 1910–1912'' (1977, 1992): Introduction by Bill Blackbeard. {{ISBN|0-88355-643-X}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-88355-642-1}} (softcover)

=== Harry N. Abrams ===
* ''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman'' (1986): Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, eds. Various strips in B&W and color, mostly from original art, including some watercolor paintings. {{ISBN|0-8109-8152-1}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-8109-9185-3}} (softcover)
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Contents of book:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! Notes
|-
|1986-004-005
|1939-08-30
|daily
|
|-
|1986-007
|1917-11-11
|Sunday
|color orig
|-
|1986-008
|1919-06-22
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-011
|1941-12-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-012
|1939-06-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-014
|1938-10-16
|Sunday
|color orig
|-
|1986-019
|1935-07-22
|daily
|
|-
|1986-021
|1922-10-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-023
|1943-02-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-026-027
|
|daily
|2 early, 'underneath' strips
|-
|1986-029
|1919-05-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-032
|1915-05-12
|daily
|
|-
|1986-041
|
|daily
|early 5 panel vert
|-
|1986-055a
|1910-07-29
|daily
|Dingbat w/cat & mouse
|-
|1986-055b
|1910-11-22
|daily
|under strip
|-
|1986-055c
|1911-07-18
|daily
|under strip
|-
|1986-056
|1917-12-24
|daily
|
|-
|1986-057
|1928-03-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-059a
|1912-07-02
|daily
|
|-
|1986-059b
|1912-07-05
|daily
|
|-
|1986-059c
|1912-07-15
|daily
|
|-
|1986-059d
|1912-07-16
|daily
|
|-
|1986-060
|1917-12-09
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-061
|1918-01-06
|daily
|mis-captioned:Jan 6 was a Sunday
|-
|1986-062
|1918-05-04
|daily
|
|-
|1986-063
|1919-12-25
|daily
|
|-
|1986-069
|1940-09-23
|daily
|
|-
|1986-077
|1918-10-15
|daily
|partial
|-
|1986-082
|1938-03-08
|daily
|
|-
|1986-085a
|1936-06-24
|daily
|
|-
|1986-085b
|
|
|April 1944, unfnished
|-
|1986-089
|1919-03-07
|daily
|-
|1986-090a
|1918-01-21
|daily
|-
|1986-090b
|1918-02-12
|daily
|-
|1986-090c
|1920-05-24
|daily
|-
|1986-090d
|1920-08-17
|daily
|-
|1986-091a
|1920-08-30
|daily
|-
|1986-091b
|1921-09-21
|daily
|-
|1986-091c
|1921-09-23
|daily
|-
|1986-091d
|1922-07-22
|daily
|-
|1986-092a
|1923-10-06
|daily
|-
|1986-092b
|1930-11-06
|daily
|-
|1986-092c
|1938-07-04
|daily
|-
|1986-092d
|1938-07-05
|daily
|-
|1986-093a
|1938-07-09
|daily
|-
|1986-093b
|1938-07-29
|daily
|-
|1986-093c
|1938-07-30
|daily
|-
|1986-093d
|1938-09-05
|daily
|-
|1986-094a
|1935-10-26
|daily
|-
|1986-094b
|1938-09-06
|daily
|-
|1986-094c
|1938-09-07
|daily
|-
|1986-094d
|1938-09-09
|daily
|-
|1986-095a
|1938-09-10
|daily
|-
|1986-095b
|1938-10-24
|daily
|-
|1986-095c
|1938-10-25
|daily
|-
|1986-095d
|1938-10-26
|daily
|-
|1986-096a
|1938-10-27
|daily
|-
|1986-096b
|1938-10-28
|daily
|-
|1986-096c
|1938-10-29
|daily
|-
|1986-096d
|1939-01-23
|daily
|-
|1986-097a
|1939-01-24
|daily
|-
|1986-097b
|1939-01-25
|daily
|-
|1986-097c
|1939-01-26
|daily
|-
|1986-097d
|1939-06-13
|daily
|-
|1986-098a
|1939-06-14
|daily
|-
|1986-098b
|1939-06-16
|daily
|-
|1986-098c
|1939-06-17
|daily
|-
|1986-098d
|1939-11-13
|daily
|-
|1986-099a
|1939-11-14
|daily
|-
|1986-099b
|1939-11-15
|daily
|-
|1986-099c
|1939-11-16
|daily
|-
|1986-099d
|1939-11-17
|daily
|-
|1986-100a
|1939-11-18
|daily
|-
|1986-100b
|1940-09-09
|daily
|-
|1986-100c
|1940-09-11
|daily
|-
|1986-100d
|1940-09-12
|daily
|-
|1986-101a
|1940-09-13
|daily
|-
|1986-101b
|1940-09-14
|daily
|-
|1986-101c
|1941-02-10
|daily
|-
|1986-101d
|1941-02-11
|daily
|-
|1986-102a
|1941-02-12
|daily
|-
|1986-102b
|1941-02-13
|daily
|-
|1986-102c
|1941-02-14
|daily
|-
|1986-102d
|1941-02-15
|daily
|-
|1986-103a
|1941-04-26
|daily
|-
|1986-103b
|1941-06-02
|daily
|-
|1986-103c
|1941-06-03
|daily
|-
|1986-103d
|1941-06-04
|daily
|-
|1986-104a
|1941-06-05
|daily
|-
|1986-104b
|1941-06-06
|daily
|-
|1986-104c
|1941-06-07
|daily
|-
|1986-104d
|1941-07-21
|daily
|-
|1986-105a
|1942-07-27
|daily
|-
|1986-105b
|1942-07-28
|daily
|-
|1986-105c
|1942-07-29
|daily
|-
|1986-105d
|1942-07-30
|daily
|
|-
|1986-106a
|1942-07-31
|daily
|
|-
|1986-106b
|1942-08-01
|daily
|
|-
|1986-106c
|1943-04-10
|daily
|
|-
|1986-106d
|1943-07-01
|daily
|
|-
|1986-107a
|1943-07-02
|daily
|
|-
|1986-107b
|1943-07-03
|daily
|
|-
|1986-107c
|1944-01-14
|daily
|
|-
|1986-107d
|1944-01-15
|daily
|
|-
|1986-108
|1916-04-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-109
|1916-04-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-110
|1916-12-03
|Sunday
|color orig
|-
|1986-111
|1918-11-17
|Sunday
|color orig; mis-captioned 1916
|-
|1986-112
|1916-09-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-113
|1916-09-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-114
|1916-05-21
|Sunday
|color orig
|-
|1986-115
|1936-08-08
|Sunday
|color orig
|-
|1986-116
|1916-10-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-117
|1916-12-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-118
|1937-10-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-119
|1938-03-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-120
|1917-01-14
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-121
|1917-06-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-122
|1917-08-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-123
|1917-09-09
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-124
|1917-09-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-125
|1917-09-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-126
|1940-03-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-127
|1940-04-14
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-128
|1917-01-21
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 11/21
|-
|1986-129
|1918-01-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-130
|1918-02-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-131
|1918-04-14
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 4/4
|-
|1986-132
|1918-05-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-133
|1918-06-30
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 6/3
|-
|1986-134
|1918-07-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-135
|1918-08-11
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 8/14
|-
|1986-136
|1918-08-25
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-137
|1918-09-29
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-138
|1940-04-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-139
|1940-05-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-140
|1918-10-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-141
|1918-11-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-142
|1940-06-02
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 6/1
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|1986-143
|1940-07-14
|Sunday
|
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|1986-144
|1918-12-15
|Sunday
|
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|1986-145
|1918-01-27
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 1/20
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|1986-146
|1919-02-02
|Sunday
|
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|1986-147
|1919-03-09
|Sunday
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|1986-148
|1919-03-16
|Sunday
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|1986-149
|1919-03-30
|Sunday
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|1986-150
|1940-10-06
|Sunday
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|1986-151
|1940-11-10
|Sunday
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|1986-152
|1919-05-18
|Sunday
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|1986-153
|1919-07-27
|Sunday
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|1986-154
|1919-09-07
|Sunday
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|1986-155
|1919-09-28
|Sunday
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|1986-156
|1919-12-07
|Sunday
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|1986-157
|1917-12-30
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 12/21/1919
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|1986-158
|1940-11-17
|Sunday
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|1986-159
|1941-01-12
|Sunday
|
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|1986-160
|1919-12-28
|Sunday
|
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|1986-161
|1920-10-10
|Sunday
|captioned "c. 1919"
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|1986-162
|1941-01-26
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 1/25
|-
|1986-163
|1941-03-09
|Sunday
|-
|1986-164
|1920-03-21
|Sunday
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|1986-165
|1920-04-25
|Sunday
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|1986-166
|1921-09-25
|Sunday
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|1986-167
|1922-02-05
|Sunday
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|1986-168
|1922-04-02
|Sunday
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|1986-169
|1922-04-16
|Sunday
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|1986-170
|1941-03-23
|Sunday
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|1986-171
|1941-04-13
|Sunday
|-
|1986-172
|1922-05-14
|Sunday
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|1986-173
|1922-06-18
|Sunday
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|1986-174
|1941-05-11
|Sunday
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|1986-175
|1941-07-06
|Sunday
|-
|1986-176
|1922-07-16
|Sunday
|-
|1986-177
|1922-07-23
|Sunday
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|1986-178
|1941-07-27
|Sunday
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|1986-179
|1941-10-05
|Sunday
|
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|1986-180
|1922-09-10
|Sunday
|
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|1986-181
|1922-11-12
|Sunday
|
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|1986-182
|1920-11-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-183
|1920-08-22
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 5/5
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|1986-184
|1925-02-15
|Sunday
|
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|1986-186
|1925-11-22
|Sunday
|
|-
|1986-186
|1941-10-12
|Sunday
|
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|1986-187
|1941-10-26
|Sunday
|
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|1986-188
|1926-03-07
|Sunday
|
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|1986-189
|1926-05-23
|Sunday
|
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|1986-190
|1941-11-16
|Sunday
|
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|1986-191
|1941-11-30
|Sunday
|
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|1986-192
|1928-01-08
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 7/29/1929
|-
|1986-193
|1933-03-12
|Sunday
|
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|1986-194
|1935-11-03
|Sunday
|
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|1986-195
|1937-04-04
|Sunday
|
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|1986-196
|1938-05-15
|Sunday
|
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|1986-197
|1942-12-27
|Sunday
|
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|1986-198
|1939-07-02
|Sunday
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|1986-199
|1939-07-23
|Sunday
|
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|1986-200
|1939-07-30
|Sunday
|
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|1986-201
|1940-09-08
|Sunday
|
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|1986-202
|1940-11-03
|Sunday
|
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|1986-203
|1941-02-23
|Sunday
|
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|1986-204
|1943-03-07
|Sunday
|
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|1986-205
|1943-04-11
|Sunday
|
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|1986-206
|1942-01-11
|Sunday
|
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|1986-207
|1942-01-25
|Sunday
|
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|1986-208
|1941-09-14
|Sunday
|mis-captioned 43
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|1986-209
|1944-04-23
|Sunday
|
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|1986-210
|1944-02-20
|Sunday
|
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|1986-211
|1944-06-25
|Sunday
|LAST Sunday strip
|-
|1986-214
|
|daily
|10/?/1915
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|1986-217
|
|daily
|?/?/1915
|-
|1986-220
|1922-06-11
|Sunday
|
|}

=== Morning Star Publications ===
* ''Coconino Chronicle'' (1988): Alec Finlay, ed. 130 strips from 1927 to 1928.

=== Eclipse Comics ===
''Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics'' (series): Bill Blackbeard, ed. Each of these volumes reprints a year of Sunday strips.
* ''Vol 1: Krazy & Ignatz'' (1988): 1916 strips. {{ISBN|0-913035-49-1}}
* ''Vol 2: The Other Side To the Shore Of Here'' (1989): 1917 strips. {{ISBN|0-913035-74-2}}
* ''Vol 3: The Limbo of Useless Unconsciousness'' (1989): 1918 strips. {{ISBN|0-913035-76-9}}
* ''Vol 4: Howling Among the Halls of Night'' (1989): 1919 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-019-5}}
* ''Vol 5: Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere'' (1990): 1920 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-023-3}}
* ''Vol 6: Sure As Moons is Cheeses'' (1990): 1921 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-034-9}}
* ''Vol 7: A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K'' (1991): 1922 strips, including 10 color Saturday strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-063-2}}
* ''Vol 8: Inna Yott On the Muddy Geranium'' (1991): 1923 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-066-7}}
* ''Vol 9: Shed a Soft Mongolian Tear'' (1992): 1924 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-102-7}}
* ''Vol 10: Honeysuckil Love Is Doubly Swit'' (unpublished): 1925 strips. {{ISBN|1-56060-203-1}}

=== Kitchen Sink Press ===
''The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat'' (series). Each volume reprinted two years of Sundays. The publisher dissolved before the series' aim of completeness could be achieved.
* ''Vol 1: 1935–1936'' (1990): Rick Marshall, Bill Watterson, contributors. {{ISBN|0-924359-06-4}}
* ''Vol 2: 1936–1937'' (1991): Rick Marshall, ed. {{ISBN|0-924359-07-2}}

=== Stinging Monkey/BookSurge ===
* ''Krazy & Ignatz, The Dailies. Vol 1: 1918–1919'' (2001, 2003): Gregory Fink, ed., introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Stinging Monkey edition in large format, {{ISBN|978-0-9688676-0-0}}. BookSurge reprint in smaller 7.9 × 6&nbsp;inch format, {{ISBN|1-59109-975-7}}, {{ISBN|978-1-59109-975-8}}. Reprints complete run of dailies from Aug 26, 1918, to Jun 28, 1919.

=== Pacific Comics ===
''All the Daily Strips....'' (series) 6¼ x 6¼ inch format.
* ''Krazy Kat vol 1: 1921'' (2003)
* ''Krazy Kat vol 2: 1922'' (2004)
* ''Krazy Kat Vol 3: 1923'' (2005)
''Presents Krazy and Ignatz'' (series) Four 3¼ x 4&nbsp;inch volumes reproducing the 1921 strips in miniature.

=== Fantagraphics Books ===
In 2002, ] began to publish a series of paperbacks – picking up where Eclipse Comics left off – with introductory essays and other bonuses, such as rare artworks and photographs. ] is the series editor, ] the cover and interior designer. For the first time ever, Fantagraphics reprinted the entirety of ''Krazy Kat'' Sundays: the first ten volumes collect two years worth of Sundays each (the first five in black and white, the last five in color – reflecting the shift in the original newspaper version); the last three paperbacks comprise the black and white Sundays already reprinted by Eclipse, presenting three years worth of material per volume.
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "There Is A Heppy Lend Furfur A-Waay": 1925–1926'' (2002) {{ISBN|1-56097-386-2}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "Love Letters In Ancient Brick": 1927–1928'' (2002) {{ISBN|1-56097-507-5}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night": 1929–1930'' (2003) {{ISBN|1-56097-529-6}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Kat Alilt with Song": 1931–1932'' (2004) {{ISBN|1-56097-594-6}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush": 1933–1934'' (2005) {{ISBN|1-56097-620-9}}
** ''Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1925–1934'': Collects the previous five paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. {{ISBN|1-56097-522-9}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy": 1935–1936'' (2005) {{ISBN|1-56097-690-X}}, 2005
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "Shifting Sands Dusts its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty": 1937–1938'' (2006) {{ISBN|1-56097-734-5}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Brick Stuffed with Moom-bins": 1939–1940'' (2007) {{ISBN|1-56097-789-2}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Ragout of Raspberries": 1941–1942'' (2007) {{ISBN|1-56097-887-2}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "He Nods in Quiescent Siesta": 1943–1944'' (2008) {{ISBN|1-56097-932-1}}
** ''Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1935–1944'': Collects the previous five paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. {{ISBN|978-1-56097-841-1}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "Love in a Kestle or Love in a Hut": 1916–1918'' (2010) {{ISBN|1-60699-316-X}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "A Kind, Benevolent and Amiable Brick": 1919–1921'' (2011) {{ISBN|1-60699-364-X}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz in "At Last My Drim of Love Has Come True": 1922–1924'' (2012) {{ISBN|1-60699-477-8}} (also includes the complete ''Us Husbands'', another strip of Herriman, unrelated to ''Krazy Kat'')
** ''Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1916–1924'': Collects the previous three paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. {{ISBN|1-60699-428-X}}
* ''Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty'' (2007) {{ISBN|1-56097-854-6}}: This volume, unrelated to the previous collections (both in design and format), is a horizontal hardcover which reprints:
** Some daily strips from 1911 and 1912 (including a sequence from July 2 to 16) and 32 from 1914 (only a few of which can be dated by cross reference to other collections).
** Plus (in large-format) all daily strips from March 4 to October 30, 1920 and from September 13 to October 15, 1921 (except Sept. 15, 19, 20, 27, 30, and Oct. 5-7).
** Also included is the artwork that Herriman drew for the program of a 1922 pantomime ballet based on Krazy Kat (reproduced larger than in the Eclipse 1923 and The George Herriman Library 1922–1924 collections).

Starting from 2019, Fantagraphics began to publish a new collection of ''Krazy Kat'' Sundays. ''The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz'', a series of deluxe hardcovers, whose format is much wider than the one of the previous paperbacks, collects 3 years worth of Sundays per volume. The bonus material, while largely similar to the one of the previous collections, presents some differences, though, such as new essays and images. ] and Bill Blackbeard are the series editors, while Keeli McCarthy is the cover and interior designer.
* ''The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916–1918'' (2019) {{ISBN|978-1-6839-6255-7}}
* ''The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919–1921'' (2020) {{ISBN|978-1-6839-6367-7}}
* ''The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922–1924'' (2022) {{ISBN|978-1-6839-6477-3}}
* ''The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1925–1927'' (2023) {{ISBN|978-1-6839-6674-6}}

=== Sunday Press Books ===
* ''Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays'' (2010): Patrick McDonnell, Peter Maresca, eds. ]. Various Sundays reprinted in their original size and colors. {{ISBN|0-9768885-8-0}} (hardcover)
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Contents of book:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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|CelebSundays-001
|1917-10-28
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|CelebSundays-004
|1918-06-09
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-007
|
|Daily
|1912, orig
|-
|CelebSundays-008
|1916-04-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-009
|1916-04-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-010
|1916-05-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-011
|1916-06-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-012
|1916-09-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-013
|1916-10-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-014
|1916-10-29
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-015
|1916-11-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-016
|1916-11-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-017
|1916-12-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-018
|1916-12-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-019
|1917-02-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-020
|1917-03-04
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-021
|1917-03-11
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-022
|1917-05-06
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-023
|1917-09-09
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-024
|1917-09-16
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-025
|1917-09-23
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-026
|1917-10-28
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-027
|1917-12-02
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-028
|1918-01-09
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-029
|1918-03-17
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-030
|1918-03-24
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-031
|1918-06-23
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-032
|1918-07-07
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-033
|1918-07-14
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-034
|1918-08-04
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-035
|1918-08-18
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-036
|1918-09-29
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-037
|1918-10-06
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-038
|1918-10-27
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-039
|1918-11-03
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-040
|1918-11-24
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-041
|1918-12-01
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-042
|1919-01-05
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-043
|1919-01-26
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-044
|1919-02-16
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-045
|1919-04-06
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-046
|1919-04-13
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-047
|1919-04-20
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-048
|1919-04-27
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-049
|1919-05-11
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-050
|1919-06-15
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-051
|1919-06-22
|Sunday
|-
|CelebSundays-052
|1919-07-20
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-053
|1919-08-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-054
|1919-08-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-055
|1919-08-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-056
|1919-09-07
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-057
|1919-09-14
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-058
|1921-09-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-059
|1922-01-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-060
|1922-01-28
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-061
|1922-02-25
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-062
|1922-03-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-063
|1922-04-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-064
|1922-06-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-065
|1922-06-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-066
|1922-07-02
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-067
|1923-01-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-068
|1923-02-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-069
|1924-01-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-070
|1927-09-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-071
|1929-05-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-072
|1930-12-28
|Sunday
|
|-
|CelebSundays-073
|1935-06-01
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-074
|1935-10-06
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-075
|1936-05-17
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-076
|1937-01-17
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-077
|1937-04-04
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-078
|1937-11-14
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-079
|1937-11-28
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-080
|1937-12-26
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-081
|1938-01-02
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-082
|1938-01-30
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-083
|1938-03-06
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-084
|1938-04-24
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-085
|1938-05-15
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-086
|1938-08-07
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-087
|1938-08-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-088
|1938-08-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-089
|1938-09-11
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-090
|1938-10-09
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-091
|1938-11-27
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-092
|1938-12-11
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-093
|1938-12-25
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-094
|1939-01-08
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-095
|1939-05-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-096
|1939-06-11
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-097
|1939-07-30
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-098
|1939-08-27
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-099
|1939-10-22
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-100
|1939-10-29
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-101
|1939-11-12
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-102
|1939-12-17
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-103
|1939-12-31
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-104
|1940-03-10
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-105
|1940-04-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-106
|1940-05-05
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-107
|1940-05-12
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-108
|1940-06-01
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-109
|1940-07-07
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-110
|1940-07-14
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-111
|1940-10-06
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-112
|1940-11-03
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-113
|1941-01-25
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-114
|1941-06-08
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-115
|1941-06-15
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-116
|1941-07-27
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-117
|1941-08-24
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-118
|1941-10-26
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-119
|1941-11-08
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-120
|1941-11-22
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-121
|1941-12-20
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-122
|1943-02-07
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-123
|1943-03-07
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-124
|1943-04-11
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-125
|1943-06-20
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-126
|1943-06-27
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-127
|1943-08-29
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-128
|1943-09-05
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-129
|1943-09-12
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-130
|1943-10-17
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-131
|1943-11-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-132
|1943-12-12
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-133
|1943-12-19
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-134
|1944-03-19
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-135
|1944-06-11
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-136
|1944-06-25
|Sunday
|color
|-
|CelebSundays-160
|
|Daily
|1944, unfinished
|}

=== Abrams ComicArts ===
* ''Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration'' (August 2011): Craig Yoe, ed. (hardcover). {{ISBN | 978-0-8109-9594-9}} Includes more than a dozen (new and old) essays, and reproductions of non-strip art pertaining to Krazy Kat and Herriman's other works.

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Pages of book with Krazy Kat strips:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|Art of GH-18
|1941-08-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-19
|1937-02-14
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-20
|1938-05-15
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-21
|1938-12-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-22
|1940-10-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-23
|1941-05-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-24
|1941-12-21
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-25
|1942-12-27
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-26
|1943-09-26
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-39
|1922-01-21
|Sunday
|color
|-
|Art of GH-42
|1926-01-22
|Daily
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-44a
|
|Daily
|191x-?; Dingbats w/ KK under
|-
|Art of GH-44b
|1939-09-30
|Daily
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-46
|1922-04-19
|Daily
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-48a
|1932-06-18
|Daily
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-48b
|1918-01-17
|Daily
|
|-
|Art of GH-49
|1939-07-06
|Daily
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-52a
|1943-04-03
|Daily
|
|-
|Art of GH-52b
|1939-11-17
|Daily
|
|-
|Art of GH-53
|1930-11-06
|Daily
|
|-
|Art of GH-55
|1916-12-03
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-56
|1922-03-11
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-57
|1916-07-02
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-58
|1939-06-04
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-59
|1918-11-17
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-60
|1939-06-25
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-61
|1917-02-11
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-62
|1918-05-05
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-63
|1917-11-04
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-64
|1917-10-28
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-65
|1936-07-25
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-66
|1919-05-18
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-67
|1918-06-30
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-68
|1922-04-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|Art of GH-69
|1932-12-25
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-70
|1932-05-01
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-71
|1938-06-05
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-72
|1917-09-09
|Sunday
|orig, color
|-
|Art of GH-73
|1944-06-04
|Sunday
|orig
|-
|Art of GH-74
|
|Sunday
|unpublished, circa 25-30
|-
|Art of GH-117
|
|Daily
|circa 1920; "wash-boila"
|-
|Art of GH-172
|
|Daily
|2 unfin, 1944
|}

=== IDW Publishing ===
* ''George Herriman's Krazy + Ignatz in Tiger Tea'' (January 2010): Craig Yoe, ed. Collects the "Tiger Tea" storyline from the daily strips, May 1936 – March 1937. {{ISBN|978-1-60010-645-3}} (hardcover).
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Contents of book:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|TT-Yoe-016
|1924-10-26
|Sunday
|Krazy's b'day
|-
|TT-Yoe-020
|1927-03-13
|Sunday
|surreal kats
|-
|TT-Yoe-025
|1919-05-18
|Sunday
|katnip field
|-
|TT-Yoe-029
|1936-05-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-030
|1936-05-16
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-031
|1936-05-25
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-032
|1936-05-26
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-033
|1936-05-27
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-034
|1936-05-28
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-035
|1936-05-29
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-036
|1936-05-30
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-037
|1936-06-01
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-038
|1936-06-02
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-039
|1936-06-03
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-040
|1936-06-04
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-041
|1936-06-05
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-042
|1936-06-06
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-043
|1936-06-08
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-044
|1936-06-09
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-045
|1936-06-10
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-046
|1936-06-11
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-047
|1936-06-12
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-048
|1936-06-13
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-049
|1936-06-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-050
|1936-06-16
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-051
|1936-06-17
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-052
|1936-06-18
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-053
|1936-06-19
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-054
|1936-06-20
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-055
|1936-06-22
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-056
|1936-06-23
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-057
|1936-06-24
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-058
|1936-06-25
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-059
|1936-06-26
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-060
|1936-06-27
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-061
|1936-06-29
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-062
|1936-06-30
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-063
|1936-07-01
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-064
|1936-07-02
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-065
|1936-07-03
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-066
|1936-07-04
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-067
|1936-07-06
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-068
|1936-07-07
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-069
|1936-07-08
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-070
|1936-07-09
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-071
|1936-07-10
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-072
|1936-07-11
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-073
|1936-07-13
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-074
|1936-07-14
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-075
|1936-07-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-076
|1936-07-16
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-077
|1936-07-27
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-078
|1936-07-28
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-079
|1936-07-29
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-080
|1936-08-19
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-081
|1936-09-14
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-082
|1936-09-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-083
|1936-09-26
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-084
|1936-12-14
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-085
|1936-12-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-086
|1936-12-16
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-087
|1936-12-17
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-088
|1936-12-18
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-089
|1936-12-19
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-090
|1936-12-21
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-091
|1936-12-22
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-092
|1936-12-23
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-093
|1936-12-24
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-094
|1936-12-25
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-095
|1936-12-26
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-096
|1937-02-22
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-097
|1937-02-23
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-098
|1937-02-24
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-099
|1937-02-25
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-100
|1937-02-26
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-101
|1937-02-27
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-102
|1937-03-01
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-103
|1937-03-02
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-104
|1937-03-03
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-105
|1937-03-04
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-106
|1937-03-05
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-107
|1937-03-06
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-108
|1937-03-08
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-109
|1937-03-09
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-110
|1937-03-10
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-111
|1937-03-11
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-112
|1937-03-12
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-113
|1937-03-13
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-114
|1937-03-15
|Daily
|
|-
|TT-Yoe-115
|1937-03-16
|Daily
|?date; TT & Katfish
|-
|TT-Yoe-116
|1937-03-17
|Daily
|?date; TT vs Wolf Wine
|-
|TT-Yoe-117
|1937-03-18
|Daily
|?date; TT vs Wolf Wine
|-
|TT-Yoe-118
|1937-03-19
|Daily
|?date; TT & Katfish, Shark
|-
|TT-Yoe-119
|1937-03-20
|Daily
|?date; TT vs Rat biscuit
|-
|TT-Yoe-121
|1921-07-31
|Sunday
|katnip
|}
* ''] Presents King Features Volume 1: Krazy Kat 1934 By George Herriman'' (April 2016): Dean Mullaney, ed. Collects a years worth of daily strips, Dec 25, 1933 – Dec 31, 1934. {{ISBN|978-1-63140-408-5}}

=== 2016 biography ===
* Michael Tisserand's 2016 biography, ''Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White'' (Harper, hardcover, 560 pages, {{ISBN| 978-0-0617-3299-7}}) is profusely illustrated with (mainly) single panels from Herriman's various comics. The table below lists ''only'' the panels from Krazy Kat, with dates from the book's captions.
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+ class="nowrap" | Panels from Krazy Kat strips:
|-
! Page !! data-sort-type=isodate | Date !! Daily/Sunday !! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|GH-B&W-ii
|
|Daily
|"reading?"
|-
|GH-B&W-vi
|
|Daily
|looking at reader
|-
|GH-B&W-009
|1917-03-22
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-017
|1916-01-07
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-024
|1921-07-27
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-028
|1933-06-19
|Daily
|2 panels
|-
|GH-B&W-031
|1938-12-02
|Daily
|2 panels
|-
|GH-B&W-036
|1931-02-21
|Daily
|2 panels
|-
|GH-B&W-038
|1941-05-04
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-039
|1931-03-13
|Daily
|2 panels
|-
|GH-B&W-043
|1921-05-19
|Daily
|2 panels
|-
|GH-B&W-046
|1934-10-15
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-049
|1934-09-05
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-050
|1917-04-01
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-051
|1918-05-19
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-053
|1915-05-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-063
|1931-03-25
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-065
|
|Daily
|"New Yorick"
|-
|GH-B&W-069
|1933-12-25
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-075
|1920-05-02
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-087
|1919-04-20
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-122
|1917-06-09
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-211
|
|Daily
|"It thrills me"
|-
|GH-B&W-243
|1913-11-01
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-246
|1916-11-25
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-248
|1914-10-31
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-249
|1916-12-22
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-256
|1915-10-26
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-263
|1916-02-18
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-266
|1916-04-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-270
|1915-11-05
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-271
|1919-02-08
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-274
|1917-02-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-276
|1918-01-08
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-279
|1917-07-17
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-282
|1917-12-25
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-285
|1918-05-05
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-287
|1919-11-23
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-288
|1922-11-19
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-298
|1915-07-31
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-305
|1921-07-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-306
|1921-07-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-310
|1922-04-16
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-316
|1918-08-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-325
|1921-03-18
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-328
|1921-08-18
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-331
|
|Daily
|K&I into ink well
|-
|GH-B&W-336
|1917-11-18
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-341
|1925-03-02
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-343
|1919-11-24
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-344
|1921-03-06
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-347
|1927-12-16
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-353
|1927-03-02
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-356
|1916-10-16
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-364
|1931-06-19
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-368
|1932-08-30
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-370
|1932-04-03
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-375
|1933-01-16
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-383
|1933-06-30
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-388
|1936-07-10
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-394
|1935-11-19
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-395
|1937-12-12
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-401
|1940-02-11
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-407
|1939-12-10
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-413
|1942-08-30
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-416
|1943-01-20
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-418
|1941-06-10
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-429
|1944-06-25
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-432a
|1934-11-12
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-432b
|1936-12-12
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-434
|1934-06-23
|Daily
|
|-
|GH-B&W-438
|1932-07-31
|Sunday
|
|-
|GH-B&W-439
|
|Daily
|"I thenk you"
|}

=== Taschen ===
* ''George Herriman's "Krazy Kat": The Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944'' (August 2019): Alexander Braun ed. XXL Hardcover (300&nbsp;mm × 440&nbsp;mm). 632 pages. Available in three languages.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726001839/https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/01173/facts.george_herrimans_krazy_kat_the_complete_color_sundays_19351944.htm |date=2019-07-26}}, ]. Retrieved 2019-08-10</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hyperallergic.com/512766/is-george-herriman-the-greatest-american-visual-artist/ |title=Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist? |website=hyperallergic.com |date=10 August 2019 |access-date=2019-12-11 |archive-date=2019-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129224404/https://hyperallergic.com/512766/is-george-herriman-the-greatest-american-visual-artist/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** English - {{ISBN|978-3-8365-6636-0}}
** German - {{ISBN|978-3-8365-7194-4}}
** French - {{ISBN|978-3-8365-7193-7}}

=== Dover Publications ===
* ''Krazy Kat Collection: Selected Sunday Strips 1918–1919'' (January 2020)' {{ISBN| 979-8321374771}}: Paperback; 112 pages.

=== Mathiesen collections ===
* Cartoonist/writer Snorre Smári Mathiesen has edited and self-published a series of daily collections:
** ''Krazy Kat - Dailies 1913-1914'' {{ISBN| 979-8321374771}}: Hardcover; 424 pages.
** ''Krazy Kat - Dailies Nov 1913-Feb 1914'' {{ISBN| 978-1-9852-4306-4}}: Paperback; 60 pages.
** ''Krazy Kat - Dailies Vol. 2: March–July 1914'' {{ISBN| 978-1-7235-6541-0}}: Paperback; 42 pages.
** ''Krazy Kat: 1924 Daily Strips'' {{ISBN| 979-8840214961}}: Original edition. Hardcover; 128 pages.
** ''Krazy Kat: 1924 Daily Strips'' {{ISBN| 979-8-8572-1643-9}}: Revised edition. Hardcover; 260 pages. Strips are printed larger than in earlier edition. The previous edition included various strips from June 1913 to March 1914, some of which had been included in the above collections. These strips are not mentioned in the introduction to the revised edition. From 1924, about 60 strips are missing.
** ''Krazy Kat: 1925 Daily Strips'' {{ISBN|979-8-3559-6731-4}}: Hardcover; 212 pages. Missing Jun 18 and Dec 25.
** ''Krazy Kat: 1926 Daily Strips'' {{ISBN| 979-8-3748-3445-1}}: Hardcover; 312 pages. Missing Dec 1, 9, 25.
** ''Krazy Kat: 1927 Daily Strips'' {{ISBN| 979-8-3975-7183-8}}: Hardcover; 314 pages. Missing Jan 1 and Dec 26.

==Filmography==
{{Main|Krazy Kat filmography}}

== See also ==
{{Portal|1920s|Cartoon|Comics}}
* The ], a ] nightspot in ] during the early decades of the 20th century, named after the comic strip.

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== References ==
* ]. "A Kat of Many Kolors: Jazz pantomime and the funny papers in 1922". (1991). Printed in ''A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K'' (q.v.)
* ]. "Krazy Kat keeps kracking". ], June 23, 2003.
* Crafton, Donald (1993). ''Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928''. University of Chicago Press. {{ISBN|0-226-11667-0}}.
* Crocker, Elisabeth. "' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326193109/http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.194/pop-cult.194 |date=2006-03-26 }}': Krazy Kat's Indeterminate Gender". ''Postmodern Culture'', January 1995. January 12, 2006.
* ]. "Cartoonists in Navajo Country". '']'', Summer 2006. 40–47.
* ] (1990). ''Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere''. Forestville: Turtle Island, Eclipse Books. {{ISBN|1-56060-024-1}}.
* Herriman, George (1991). ''A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K''. Forestville: Turtle Island/Eclipse Books. {{ISBN|1-56060-064-0}}.
* Herriman, George (2002). ''Krazy & Ignatz 1925–1926: "There Is A Heppy Land, Fur, Far Awa-a-ay -"''. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-386-2}}.
* Herriman, George (2003). ''Krazy & Ignatz 1929–1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night"''. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-529-6}}.
* Herriman, George (2004). ''Krazy & Ignatz 1933–1934: "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush"''. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. {{ISBN|1-56097-620-9}}.
* Inge, Thomas (1990). "Krazy Kat as American Dada Art" ''Comics as Culture'', Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. {{ISBN|0-87805-408-1}}.
* ]. Untitled review of Herriman art exhibition. '']'', January 17, 1982.
* ] (1987). ''Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons''. Penguin Books. {{ISBN|0-452-25993-2}}.
* ]; O'Connell, Karen; de Havenon, Georgia Riley (1986) ''Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman''. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. {{ISBN|0-8109-2313-0}}.
* Schwartz, Ben (2003). "Hearst, Herriman, and the Death of Nonsense". Printed in ''Krazy & Ignatz 1929–1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night"''. (q.v.)
* Shannon, Edward A. "'That we may mis-unda-stend each udda': The Rhetoric of Krazy Kat". ''Journal of Popular Culture'', Fall 1995, vol. 29, issue 2.
* ]. "In Coconino County". '']'', November 3, 1946, p.&nbsp;161.
* ] (1995). ''The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book''. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel. {{ISBN|0-8362-0438-7}}

== Further reading ==
* Kish, Frances. "Watch 'Em Move: A Short Biography of Krazy Kat and Some of His Goofy Friends", '']'', September 1930, p.&nbsp;71. Article on animation.

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
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* {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020913102625/http://www.krazy.com/ |title=Coconino County |date=2002-09-13}} – History, bios, strip archive, bibliography and more.
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American comic strip by George Herriman which ran from 1913 to 1944
Krazy Kat
cartoon of brick hitting kit kat in back of head from 1937Ignatz hurls a brick at Krazy Kat, who misinterprets it as an expression of love.
Author(s)George Herriman
Launch dateOctober 28, 1913 (1913-10-28)
End dateJune 25, 1944 (1944-06-25)
Syndicate(s)King Features Syndicate
Genre(s)Gag-a-day, humor, romance comics, self-reflexive comics, experimental comics

Krazy Kat (also known as Krazy & Ignatz in some reprints and compilations) is an American newspaper comic strip, created by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. The characters had been introduced previously in a side strip with Herriman's earlier creation, The Dingbat Family, after earlier appearances in the Herriman comic strip Baron Bean. The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, Krazy Kat's mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years.

The strip focuses on the curious relationship between a guileless, carefree, simple-minded cat named Krazy and a short-tempered mouse named Ignatz. Krazy nurses an unrequited love for the mouse, but Ignatz despises Krazy and constantly schemes to throw bricks at Krazy's head, which Krazy interprets as a sign of affection, uttering grateful replies such as "Li'l dollink, allus f'etful", or "Li'l ainjil". A third principal character, Officer Bull Pupp, often appears and tries to "protect" Krazy by thwarting Ignatz' attempts and imprisoning him. Later on, Officer Pupp falls in love with Krazy.

Despite the slapstick simplicity of the general premise, the detailed characterization, combined with Herriman's visual and verbal creativity, made Krazy Kat one of the first comics to be widely praised by intellectuals and treated as "serious" art. Art critic Gilbert Seldes wrote a lengthy panegyric to the strip in 1924, calling it "the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced in America today". Poet E. E. Cummings, another Herriman admirer, wrote the introduction to the first collection of the strip in book form. These critical appraisals by Seldes and cummings were influential in establishing Krazy Kat's reputation as a work of genius. Though Krazy Kat was only a modest success during its initial run, in more recent years, many modern cartoonists have cited the strip as a major influence.

Overview

Cartoon page of Krazy Kat as Krazy tries to understand why Door Mouse is carrying a door from January 21, 1922.
Notice the ever-changing backgrounds in this January 21, 1922 page as Krazy tries to understand why Door Mouse is carrying a door.

Krazy Kat takes place in a heavily stylized version of Coconino County, Arizona, with Herriman filling the page with caricatured flora and fauna, and rock formation landscapes typical of the Painted Desert. These backgrounds tend to change dramatically between panels, even while the characters remain stationary. While the local geography is fluid, certain sites were stable—and featured so often in the strip as to become iconic. These latter included Officer Pupp's jailhouse and Kolin Kelly's brickyard. A Southwestern visual style is evident throughout, with clay-shingled rooftops, trees planted in pots with designs imitating Navajo art, along with references to Mexican-American culture. The strip also occasionally features incongruous trappings borrowed from the stage, with curtains, backdrops, theatrical placards, and sometimes even floor lights framing the panel borders.

The descriptive passages mix whimsical, often alliterative language with phonetically-spelled dialogue and a strong poetic sensibility ("Agathla, centuries aslumber, shivers in its sleep with splenetic splendor, and spreads abroad a seismic spasm with the supreme suavity of a vagabond volcano"). Herriman was also fond of experimenting with unconventional page layouts in his Sunday strips, including panels of various shapes and sizes, arranged in whatever fashion he thought would best tell the story.

Though the basic concept of the strip is simple, Herriman always found ways to tweak the formula. Ignatz's plans to surreptitiously lob a brick at Krazy's head sometimes succeed; other times Officer Pupp outsmarts Ignatz and imprisons him. The interventions of Coconino County's other anthropomorphic animal residents, and even forces of nature, occasionally change the dynamic in unexpected ways. Other strips have Krazy's imbecilic or gnomic pronouncements irritating the mouse so much that he goes to seek out a brick in the final panel. Even self-referential humor is evident—in one strip, Officer Pupp, having arrested Ignatz, berates Herriman for not having finished drawing the jailhouse.

Public reaction at the time was mixed; many were puzzled by its iconoclastic refusal to conform to linear comic strip conventions and straightforward gags, but publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst loved Krazy Kat, and it continued to appear in his papers throughout its run, sometimes only by his direct order.

Cast of characters

Animated cartoon characterFictional character
Krazy Kat
First appearance1910
Created byGeorge Herriman
In-universe information
SpeciesCat
GenderMale

Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat in The Film Daily, May 1926

Simple-minded, curious, mindlessly happy and perpetually innocent, the strip's title character drifts through life in Coconino County without a care. Krazy's dialogue is a highly stylized argot ("A fowl konspirissy – is it pussible?") phonetically evoking a mixture of English, French, Spanish, Yiddish and other dialects, often identified as George Herriman's own native New Orleans dialect, Yat. Often singing and dancing to express the Kat's eternal joy, Krazy is hopelessly in love with Ignatz and thinks that the mouse's brick-tossing is his way of returning that love. Krazy is also completely unaware of the bitter rivalry between Ignatz and "Offissa" Pupp and mistakes the dog's frequent imprisonment of the mouse for an innocent game of tag ("Ever times I see them two playing games togedda, Ignatz seems to be It"). On those occasions when Ignatz is caught before he can launch his brick, Krazy is left pining for the "l'il ainjil" and wonders where the beloved mouse has gone.

Krazy's own gender is never made clear and appears to be fluid, varying from strip to strip. Most authors post-Herriman (beginning with Cummings) have mistakenly referred to Krazy only as female, but Krazy's creator was more ambiguous and even published several strips poking fun at this uncertainty. When filmmaker Frank Capra, a fan of the strip, asked Herriman to straightforwardly define the character's sex, the cartoonist admitted that Krazy was "something like a sprite, an elf. They have no sex. So that Kat can't be a he or a she. The Kat's a spirit—a pixie—free to butt into anything". Most characters inside the strip use "he" and "him" to refer to Krazy.

Ignatz Mouse

Cartoon Ignatz being marched off by Officer Pupp for trying to throw a brick at Krazy Kat.
Ignatz being marched off by Officer Pupp for trying to throw a brick at Krazy Kat. Behind the newspaper, Krazy is reading and describing aloud the very same cartoon in which they are all appearing.

Ignatz is driven to distraction by Krazy Kat's naïveté, and generally reacts by throwing bricks at Krazy's head. To shield his plans from Officer Pupp, Ignatz hides his bricks, disguises himself, or enlists the aid of willing Coconino County denizens (without making his intentions clear). Easing Ignatz's task is Krazy Kat's willingness to meet him anywhere at any appointed time, eager to receive a token of affection in the form of a brick to the head. Ignatz is married with three children, though they are rarely seen.

Ironically, although Ignatz seems to generally have contempt for Krazy, one strip shows his ancestor, Mark Antony Mouse, fall in love with Krazy's ancestor, an Egyptian cat princess (calling her his "Star of the Nile"), and pay a sculptor to carve a brick with a love message. When he throws it at her, he is arrested, but she announces her love for him, and from that day on, he throws bricks at her to show his love for her (which would explain why Krazy believes that Ignatz throwing bricks is a sign of love). In another strip, Krazy kisses a sleeping Ignatz, and hearts appear above the mouse's head.

In the last five (or so) years of the strip, Ignatz's feelings of animosity for Krazy were noticeably downplayed. While earlier, one got the sense of his taking advantage of Krazy's willingness to be "bricked", now one gets the sense of Ignatz and Krazy as chummy co-conspirators against Pupp, with Ignatz at times quite aware of the positive way Krazy interprets his missiles.

Officer Bull Pupp

A police dog who loves Krazy, and always tries (sometimes successfully) to thwart Ignatz's desires to pelt Krazy Kat with bricks. Officer Pupp and Ignatz often try to get the better of each other even when Krazy is not directly involved, as they both enjoy seeing the other played for a fool. He appears slightly less frequently than Krazy and Ignatz. He is also the main character of his own short film series.

Secondary characters

Beyond these three, Coconino County is populated with an assortment of incidental, recurring characters:

  • Joe Stork: the "purveyor of progeny to prince & proletarian", often makes baby deliveries to various characters. In one strip, Ignatz tries to trick him into dropping a brick onto Krazy's head from above. The character debuted in Gooseberry Sprig as the titular character's "Prime Minister".
  • Kolin Kelly: a dog, a brickmaker by trade who bakes his wares in a kiln. He is often Ignatz's source for projectiles, although he distrusts the mouse.
  • Mrs. Kwakk Wakk: a duck in a pillbox hat, a scold and busybody who frequently notices Ignatz in the course of his plotting and informs Officer Pupp. She is a social climber, attempting in one strip continuity to replace Pupp as police chief.

Other characters who make semi-frequent appearances are:

  • Mimi: a fine French poodle
  • Walter Cephus Austridge: a nondescript ostrich
  • Bum Bill Bee: a transient, bearded insect
  • Don Kiyote: an inconsequential heterodox Mexican coyote
  • Mock Duck: a clairvoyant fowl of Chinese descent who operates a cleaning establishment.
  • Gooseberry Sprig: the Duck Duke, who briefly starred in his own strip before Krazy Kat was created.
  • Also: Krazy's Aunt Tabby and Uncle Tom; and his aerial and aquatic cousins, respectively: Krazy Katbird and Krazy Katfish.
  • Ignatz also has relations; his family of look-alike mice includes his wife, Mathilda and a trio of equally unruly sons named Milton, Marshall and Irving.

History

Krazy Kat evolved from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, The Dingbat Family, which started in June 1910 and was later renamed The Family Upstairs. This comic chronicled the Dingbats' attempts to avoid the mischief of the mysterious unseen family living in the apartment above theirs and to unmask that family. Herriman would complete the daily comics about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over in his 8-hour work day, filled the bottom of the strip with slapstick drawings of the upstairs family's mouse preying upon the Dingbats' cat.

Cartoon page of Ignatz Mouse resolves not to throw any more bricks at Krazy.
Ignatz Mouse resolves not to throw any more bricks at Krazy. Temptation follows him at every turn, and ultimately he finds a loophole to indulge his passion (January 6, 1918).

This "basement strip" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon. Krazy Kat first appeared as its own daily comic strip in 1911, and then again in the summer of 1912, although only temporarily at the time. It again became a daily comic strip (running vertically down the side of the page) in October 1913, and was thereafter to remain in syndication for more than thirty years. A black and white, full-page Krazy Kat Sunday comic was launched on April 23, 1916. Possibly due to the objections of editors, who did not think it was suitable for the comics sections, Krazy Kat originally appeared in the Hearst papers' art and drama sections. It has been claimed that Hearst himself, however, enjoyed the strip so much that he gave Herriman a lifetime contract and guaranteed the cartoonist complete creative freedom, although according to Michael Tisserand's biography on Herriman (2016), there exists no proof that this alleged lifetime contract was ever made or signed.

Despite its relatively low popularity among the general public, Krazy Kat gained a wide following among intellectuals. In 1922, a jazz ballet based on the comic was produced and scored by John Alden Carpenter; though the performance played to sold-out crowds on two nights and was given positive reviews in The New York Times and The New Republic, it failed to boost the strip's popularity as Hearst had hoped. In addition to Seldes and Cummings, contemporary admirers of Krazy Kat included T. S. Eliot, Willem de Kooning, H. L. Mencken, P. G. Wodehouse, Jack Kerouac, Robert Benchley and artist Paul Nash. In 1931, Nash wrote that "no country has produced, in the narrow limits of this medium, a fantastic philosopher such as George Herriman". Reportedly, president Woodrow Wilson also read the strip regularly. More recent scholars and authors have seen the strip as reflecting the Dada movement and prefiguring postmodernism.

In the summer of 1934, the Krazy Kat Sunday page was temporarily shelved, although the daily strip continued as before. Beginning in June 1935, Krazy Kat's Sunday page returned, and was thereafter published in full color. Though the number of newspapers carrying it dwindled in its last decade, Herriman continued to draw Krazy Kat, creating roughly 3,000 comics in total, until his death in April 1944 (the final Sunday page was published exactly two months later, on June 25). Hearst promptly canceled the strip after the artist died, because, contrary to the common practice of the time, he did not want to see a new cartoonist take over.

Animated adaptations

The title card of this 1916 silent short read "Krazy Kat – Bugologist. A Cartoon by George Herriman. Animated by Frank Moser". Length 3m24s, 416 kbit/s

The comic strip was animated several times (see filmography below). The earliest Krazy Kat shorts were produced by Hearst, starting with the release of Introducing Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse in February 1916. More than 25 similar animated silent shorts were made until August 1917. They were produced under Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and later the International Film Service (IFS), though Herriman was not involved.

In early 1920, after a two-year hiatus, the John R. Bray studio began producing a second series of Krazy Kat shorts. These cartoons hewed close to the comic strips, including Ignatz, Pupp and other standard supporting characters. Krazy's ambiguous gender and feelings for Ignatz were usually preserved; bricks were occasionally thrown. Bray Productions produced at least eleven such Krazy Kat shorts until February 1921, after which the series ended. With added sound effects and music, these (originally silent) cartoons were in periodic reissue also during the 1930s and 1940s, and ended up being syndicated to television in the 1950s.

In 1925, animation pioneer Bill Nolan decided to bring Krazy to the screen again. Nolan intended to produce the series under Associated Animators, but when it dissolved, he sought distribution from Margaret J. Winkler. Unlike earlier adaptations, Nolan did not base his shorts on the characters and setting of the Herriman comic strip. Instead, the feline in Nolan's cartoons was a male cat whose design and personality both reflected Felix the Cat. This is probably due to the fact that Nolan himself was a former employee of the Pat Sullivan studio. Other Herriman characters appeared in the Nolan cartoons at first, though similarly altered: Kwakk Wakk was at times Krazy's paramour, with Ignatz often the bully trying to break up the romance. Over time, Nolan's influence waned and new directors, Ben Harrison and Manny Gould, took over the series. By late 1927, they were solely in charge.

Ad from The Film Daily, 1929

Winkler's husband, Charles Mintz, slowly began assuming control of the operation. Mintz and his studio (later known as Screen Gems) began producing the cartoons in sound beginning with 1929's Ratskin. In 1931, he moved the staff to California and ultimately changed the design of Krazy Kat. The new character bore even less resemblance to the one in the newspapers. Mintz's Krazy Kat was, like many other early 1930s cartoon characters, imitative of Mickey Mouse, and usually engaged in slapstick comic adventures with his look-alike girlfriend and loyal pet dog. In 1936, animator Isadore Klein, with the blessing of Mintz, set to work creating the short Lil' Ainjil, the only Mintz work that was intended to reflect Herriman's comic strip. However, Klein was "terribly disappointed" with the resulting cartoon, and the Mickey-derivative Krazy returned. In 1939, Mintz became indebted to his distributor, Columbia Pictures, and subsequently sold his studio to them. The studio released its final Krazy Kat cartoon, The Mouse Exterminator, in January 1940 as part of their Phantasies series, which was also the last screen adaptation of Krazy Kat to be made during Herriman's lifetime. In the 1960s, some of the later shorts were colorized and released on Super 8mm film.

As had been the case with the animated Krazy Kat shorts of the silent era, Herriman was not involved in the making of the sound shorts of the 1930s.

King Features produced 50 Krazy Kat cartoons from 1962 to 1964, most of which were created at Gene Deitch's Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), whilst the rest were produced by Artransa Film Studios in Sydney, Australia. The cartoons were initially televised interspersed with Beetle Bailey (some of which were also produced by Artransa) and Snuffy Smith cartoons to form a half-hour TV show, The King Features Trilogy. These cartoons helped to introduce Herriman's cat to the baby boomers. 27 of these cartoons have been made available on DVD within the "Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack" set.

The King Features shorts of the 1960s were made for television and have a closer connection to the comic strip; the backgrounds are drawn in a similar style, Ignatz was present and once again the reluctant object of Krazy's affection. This incarnation of Krazy was made female; Penny Phillips voiced Krazy while Paul Frees voiced Ignatz. The recurring character Officer Bull Pupp also appeared often in this series, though his love of Krazy did not play a role in very many of the stories. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans did the music for most of the episodes. Most of the episodes are available on DVD.

Comic book adaptation

In 1951, Dell Publishing revived the characters for a run of comic books. All five issues were drawn by cartoonist John Stanley, best known for his Little Lulu comic books. While the general plot premise is reminiscent of Herriman's strip, the look and feel are entirely different: firmly in the visual and written style of 1950s talking animal strips for children. Krazy is male in this version of the strip while Ignatz is female. This "Krazy Kat" also made several one-shot appearances in Dell's Four Color Comics series, from 1953 through 1956 (#s 454, 504, 548, 619, 696) and was reprinted in some Gold Key and Page Comics over the next decade.

Chronology of formats

The strip went through several format changes during its run, each of which impacted the artwork and the narratives that the form of the strip could accommodate. What follows are the landmarks, which can also help to date the era of a given strip.

  • July 26, 1910: First "beaning" of Kat by Mouse at bottom of The Dingbat Family. Strip is not sectioned off, but a detail at the bottom of the panels. Strip as a whole tended to run 4 inches × 13 inches. Soon the Kat and Mouse were a five-panel 1½ inch strip at the bottom of the cartoon.
  • 1911: First brief run of Krazy and I. Mouse standalone strips (probably as a replacement to The Family Upstairs). Also, the characters briefly take over the strip for a couple of periods in 1912 (at least once, while the Dingbats are "on holiday" in July 1912).
  • October 28, 1913: Krazy Kat debuts as a five-panel daily vertical strip which runs down the side of a full comics page. This remains its daily format until sometime in 1920.
  • April 23, 1916: First black and white full page Sunday strip.
  • March 4 – October 30, 1920: The "Panoramic Dailies" period, where Herriman is allowed to experiment wildly in an unbroken daily horizontal 3 × 13 inch space.
  • November 1920 on: Herriman is constrained to a more conventional daily horizontal format containing three equal split sections, with the center section further split in two. This allows the strip to be run full page, half page or a third of a page, according to editorial whim. From September 13 to October 15, 1921, Herriman regains some control (no split center section) and resumes the previous years' format experiments.
  • January 7 – March 11, 1922: In the New York Journal, 10 weeks of Saturday full-page color strips, in addition to the ongoing Sunday full page black-and-white strips (in other words, two original full-page strips every week). This is then canceled due to its lack of noticeable commercial success, compared to the new Saturday color sections in out-of-town Hearst papers which contained no Krazy Kat.
  • August 1925 to September 1929: Sundays are confined to 3-row, split-middle-line format allowing some papers to reduce cartoon's size and reformat into two daily-sized rows.
  • Summer 1934: Full page Sunday strips cease entirely, for roughly a year.
  • June 1, 1935: Full page Sunday strips resume, now in color, until Herriman's death.
  • December 11, 1938: "Optional" horizontal panel begins running on bottom of Sunday strips, as placeholder for potential advertising.
  • June 3, 1944: Final daily strip published.
  • June 25, 1944: Final Sunday strip published.

Legacy

In 1934, in the live-action film Babes in Toyland, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the cat playing the fiddle (Peter Gordon) is repeatedly hit in the head with a brick by a mouse (a capuchin monkey) costumed to look similar to Disney's Mickey Mouse.

In 1974, the OrlandoCon comics convention ("O'Con") introduced the Ignatz Award, a gold brick presented to the show's guest of honor. Recipients of the O'Con Ignatz included Don Martin, Ralph Kent, Joe Kubert, Martin Nodell, Don Addis, Burne Hogarth, and Dik Browne. This tradition continued until O'Con's demise in 1994. Soon after, beginning in 1997, the Small Press Expo (SPX) began distributing their own Ignatz Award bricks to the winners of various annual awards. During his tenure as SPX Ignatz Award administrator, Jeff Alexander drew a strip for the annual award program in Herriman's style.

In 1984, Cyndi Lauper paid homage to Krazy Kat in her song "Yeah Yeah", overdubbing the phrase in Krazy Kat's vocal style — "Ignatz, I love you" — during the second verse.

In 1994, in the live-action film Pulp Fiction, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson; Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Officer Pupp make an appearance, printed on a pale blue T-shirt worn by Jackson's character Jules, who had to hastily change his clothes after an accidental shooting in a car.

In 1999, Krazy Kat was rated #1 in a Comics Journal list of the best American comics of the 20th century; the list included both comic books and comic strips. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps.

In 2004, a picture of Krazy Kat appeared on the wall of the Goofy Goober bar in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, alongside a picture of Popeye.

Krazy Kat continues to inspire artists and cartoonists. Chuck Jones's Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts, set in a similar visual pastiche of the American Southwest, are among the most famous cartoons to draw upon Herriman's work. Patrick McDonnell, creator of the current strip Mutts and co-author of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, cites it as his "foremost influence". Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame named Krazy Kat among his three major influences (along with Peanuts and Pogo). Watterson would revive Herriman's practice of employing varied, unpredictable panel layouts in his Sunday strips. Charles M. Schulz and Will Eisner both said that they were drawn towards cartooning partly because of the impact Krazy Kat made on them in their formative years. Bobby London's Dirty Duck was styled after Krazy Kat.

Jules Feiffer, Philip Guston, and Hunt Emerson have all had Krazy Kat's imprint recognized in their work. Larry Gonick's comic strip Kokopelli & Company is set in "Kokonino County", an homage to Herriman's exotic locale. Chris Ware admires the strip, and his frequent publisher, Fantagraphics, is currently reissuing its entire run in volumes designed by Ware (which also include reproductions of Herriman miscellanea, some of it donated by Ware). In the 1980s, Sam Hurt's syndicated strip Eyebeam showed a clear Herriman influence, particularly in its continually morphing backgrounds.

Among non-cartoonists, Jay Cantor's 1987 novel Krazy Kat uses Herriman's characters to analyze humanity's reaction to nuclear weapons, Russell Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency (also 1987) uses a quote from the cartoon in an epigraph ("ZIP... POW... LOVES ME") while Michael Stipe of the rock band R.E.M. has a tattoo of Krazy and Ignatz.

In the Garfield TV special Garfield: His 9 Lives, Garfield plays a stunt double for Krazy Kat. In one 1989 Bloom County strip by Berkeley Breathed, Krazy and Ignatz can be seen watching Binkley, Oliver, and Opus float through a Herriman-esque landscape; and in a couple of 9 Chickweed Lane strips, Krazy and Ignatz are referred to in regards to a printed training bra once worn by Edda during her preteen years.

Reprints and compilations

For many decades, only a small percentage of Herriman's strip was available in reprinted form. The first Krazy Kat collection, published by Henry Holt and Company in 1946, just two years after Herriman's death, gathered 200 selected strips. In Europe, the cartoons were first reprinted in 1965 by the Italian magazine Linus, and appeared in the pages of the French monthly Charlie Mensuel starting in 1970. In 1969, Grosset & Dunlap produced a single hardcover collection of selected episodes and sequences spanning the entire length of the strip's run. The Netherlands' Real Free Press published five issues of Krazy Kat Komix in 1974–1976, containing a few hundred strips apiece; each of the issues' covers was designed by Joost Swarte. However, owing to the difficulty of tracking down high-quality copies of the original newspapers, no plans for a comprehensive collection of Krazy Kat strips surfaced until the 1980s.

All of the Sunday strips from 1916 to 1924 were reprinted by Eclipse Comics in cooperation with Turtle Island Press. Beginning in 1988, the intent was to eventually reprint every Sunday Krazy Kat, but this planned series was aborted when Eclipse ceased business in 1992. Beginning in 2002, Fantagraphics resumed reprinting Sunday Krazy Kats where Eclipse left off; in 2008, their tenth release completed the run with 1944. Fantagraphics then reissued, in the same format, the strips previously printed in Eclipse's now out-of-print volumes. Both the Eclipse and Fantagraphics reprints include additional rarities such as older George Herriman cartoons predating Krazy Kat.

In 1990, Kitchen Sink Press, in association with Remco Worldservice Books, reprinted two volumes of color Sunday strips dating from 1935 to 1937, but like Eclipse, they collapsed before they could continue the series. The 3-D Zone #5, published by The 3-D Zone in June 1987, features reprints of Krazy Kat strips converted into 3-D, and includes two pairs of red/blue 3-D glasses.

The daily strips for 1921 to 1923 were reprinted by Pacific Comics Club, in two series of different sizes. Comics Revue published all of the daily strips from September 8, 1930 through December 31, 1934. In 2007, Fantagraphics offered a one-shot reprint of daily strips from 1910s and 1920s, and plans a more complete reprinting of the daily strip in the future.

Scattered Sundays and dailies have appeared in several collections, including the Grosset & Dunlap book reprinted by Nostalgia Press, but the most readily available sampling of Sundays and dailies from throughout the strip's run is Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 1986. It includes a detailed biography of Herriman and was, for a long time, the only in-print book to republish Krazy Kat strips from after 1940. Although it contains over 200 strips, including many color Sundays, it is light on material from 1923 to 1937. Small selections of dailies appear in literary anthologies published by The Green Bag.

Henry Holt & Co.

  • Krazy Kat (1946): Introduction by E.E. Cummings. Hardcover B&W compilation of daily and Sunday strips, concentrating on 1930–1944.
Contents of book:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
1946-001 1943-04-03 daily
1946-002a 1941-03-18 daily
1946-002b 1941-03-20 daily
1946-002c 1941-03-21 daily
1946-002d 1941-03-22 daily
1946-003 daily 11/17/192x?
1946-004 1936-03-15 Sunday
1946-005 1921-07-10 Sunday
1946-006 intro text only
1946-007 1930-11-06 daily
1946-008 1941-12-06 daily
1946-009 1933-11-12 Sunday
1946-010 1937-06-13 Sunday
1946-011 1937-06-06 Sunday
1946-012 1941-11-23 Sunday
1946-013 1943-05-02 Sunday
1946-014 1942-07-26 Sunday
1946-015 1936-10-25 Sunday
1946-016 1942-05-10 Sunday
1946-017a 1942-04-21 daily
1946-017b 1942-04-22 daily
1946-017c 1942-04-23 daily
1946-017d 1942-04-24 daily
1946-018a 1942-04-25 daily
1946-018b 1943-09-02 daily
1946-018c 1942-11-14 daily
1946-018d daily coco/mulb tree
1946-019 1944-01-30 Sunday
1946-020 1944-02-06 Sunday
1946-021 1943-07-04 Sunday
1946-022 1942-04-05 Sunday
1946-023 1934-05-20 Sunday
1946-024 1941-06-01 Sunday
1946-025 1941-04-27 Sunday
1946-026 1943-09-19 Sunday
1946-027 1943-11-14 Sunday
1946-028 1942-06-21 Sunday
1946-029a 1943-03-03 daily
1946-029b daily ?/?/1931?
1946-029c 1934-11-12 daily
1946-029d 1934-11-13 daily
1946-030 1943-11-21 Sunday
1946-031 1942-12-20 Sunday
1946-032a 1936-07-06 daily start 1946 Tiger Tea excerpt
1946-032b 1936-07-08 daily Tiger Tea
1946-032c 1936-07-09 daily Tiger Tea
1946-032d 1936-07-10 daily Tiger Tea
1946-033a 1936-07-11 daily Tiger Tea
1946-033b 1936-07-27 daily Tiger Tea
1946-033c 1936-07-29 daily Tiger Tea
1946-033d 1936-09-26 daily Tiger Tea
1946-034a 1937-03-10 daily Tiger Tea
1946-034b 1936-08-19 daily Tiger Tea
1946-034c 1937-03-11 daily Tiger Tea
1946-034d 1937-03-17 daily end 1946 Tiger Tea excerpt
1946-035 1938-03-27 Sunday
1946-036 1939-01-01 Sunday
1946-037 1940-12-08 Sunday
1946-038 1937-06-20 Sunday
1946-039 1944-03-05 Sunday
1946-040a 1943-08-11 daily
1946-040b 1932-03-09 daily
1946-040c 1942-02-11 daily
1946-040d 1942-02-12 daily
1946-041 1942-02-22 Sunday
1946-042 1944-05-14 Sunday
1946-043 1943-05-09 Sunday
1946-044 1936-11-22 Sunday
1946-045 1942-04-19 Sunday
1946-046 1936-07-26 Sunday
1946-047 1935-07-07 Sunday
1946-048a 1930-07-17 daily start Kuku Kat excerpt
1946-048b 1930-07-19 daily Kuku Kat
1946-048c 1930-06-18 daily Kuku Kat
1946-048d 1930-06-21 daily Kuku Kat
1946-049a 1930-07-21 daily Kuku Kat
1946-049b 1930-07-02 daily Kuku Kat
1946-049c 1930-06-19 daily Kuku Kat
1946-049d 1930-06-26 daily Kuku Kat
1946-050a daily ?/?/1923?
1946-050b 1930-08-11 daily Kuku Kat
1946-050c 1930-08-18 daily Kuku Kat
1946-050d 1930-08-23 daily Kuku Kat
1946-051a 1930-07-04 daily Kuku Kat
1946-051b 1930-08-06 daily Kuku Kat
1946-051c 1930-10-10 daily Kuku Kat
1946-051d 1930-10-11 daily Kuku Kat
1946-052a 1930-10-14 daily Kuku Kat
1946-052b 1930-10-15 daily Kuku Kat
1946-052c 1930-10-17 daily Kuku Kat
1946-052d 1930-10-18 daily end Kuku Kat excerpt
1946-053 1933-06-25 Sunday
1946-054 1933-10-01 Sunday
1946-055 1941-03-23 Sunday
1946-056 1919-11-02 Sunday
1946-057 1921-07-24 Sunday
1946-058a 1932-10-10 daily
1946-058b 1932-10-11 daily
1946-058c 1932-10-15 daily
1946-058d 1932-10-28 daily
1946-059 1922-06-11 Sunday
1946-060a 1942-10-09 daily
1946-060b 1931-03-19 daily
1946-060c 1931-06-08 daily ?year
1946-060d 1934-07-24 daily
1946-061 1941-08-24 Sunday
1946-062 1921-09-11 Sunday
1946-063 1938-04-24 Sunday
1946-064 1943-08-01 Sunday
1946-065a 1933-08-23 daily
1946-065b 1932-06-16 daily
1946-065c 1932-06-18 daily
1946-065d 1932-06-14 daily
1946-066 1943-06-20 Sunday
1946-067 1933-07-16 Sunday
1946-068 1940-07-28 Sunday
1946-069 1940-07-07 Sunday
1946-070a 1940-04-24 daily
1946-070b 1940-06-27 daily
1946-070c 1940-06-25 daily
1946-070d 1940-07-03 daily
1946-071 1940-07-21 Sunday
1946-072a 1940-06-29 daily
1946-072b 1940-03-15 daily
1946-072c 1941-01-18 daily
1946-072d 1940-04-26 daily
1946-073 1940-08-11 Sunday
1946-074 1940-08-04 daily
1946-075 1937-09-26 Sunday
1946-076a 1932-07-08 daily
1946-076b daily 2/10/19xx?
1946-076c daily ?/?/1941
1946-076d 1941-09-10 daily
1946-077 1937-05-02 Sunday
1946-078 1921-05-08 Sunday
1946-079 1933-02-05 Sunday
1946-080a 1932-06-04 daily
1946-080b 1941-07-30 daily
1946-080c 1939-12-11 daily
1946-080d 1943-12-20 daily
1946-081 1938-08-14 Sunday
1946-082 1937-12-26 Sunday
1946-083a 1932-01-19 daily ?date
1946-083b 1932-01-20 daily Manx cats
1946-083c 1932-01-21 daily Manx cats
1946-083d 1932-01-22 daily Manx cats
1946-084a 1932-01-23 daily Manx cats
1946-084b 1932-01-27 daily Manx cats
1946-084c 1932-01-28 daily Manx cats
1946-084d 1932-01-29 daily Manx cats
1946-085a 1932-01-30 daily Manx cats
1946-085b 1932-02-04 daily Manx cats
1946-085c 1932-02-01 daily Manx cats
1946-085d 1932-02-06 daily Manx cats
1946-086 1942-03-22 Sunday
1946-087 1941-07-27 Sunday
1946-088 1939-12-03 Sunday
1946-089 1943-10-03 Sunday
1946-090 1937-04-11 Sunday
1946-091 1939-07-09 Sunday
1946-092a 1941-04-21 daily
1946-092b 1941-04-22 daily
1946-092c 1941-04-25 daily
1946-092d 1941-04-26 daily
1946-093 1944-03-26 Sunday
1946-094 1936-11-01 Sunday
1946-095 1943-01-03 Sunday poss misdated as 1/2
1946-096a 1932-08-30 daily Uncle Tom Kat excerpt
1946-096b 1932-08-23 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-096c 1932-08-25 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-096d 1932-08-31 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-097a 1932-10-04 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-097b 1932-09-05 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-097c 1932-09-07 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-097d 1932-06-28 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-098a 1932-09-16 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-098b 1932-09-29 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-098c 1932-09-30 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-098d 1932-09-24 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-099a 1932-09-12 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-099b 1932-09-20 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-099c 1932-09-21 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-099d 1932-09-22 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-100a 1932-09-12 daily repeats from p99a
1946-100b 1932-09-14 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-100c 1932-09-15 daily Uncle Tom Kat
1946-100d 1932-09-28 daily end Uncle Tom Kat excerpt
1946-101 1941-09-28 Sunday
1946-102 1942-05-31 Sunday
1946-103 1944-05-07 Sunday
1946-104 1941-12-07 Sunday
1946-105 1941-03-16 Sunday
1946-106a 1942-04-01 daily
1946-106b daily 3/29/19xx?
1946-106c 1931-07-16 daily
1946-106d daily 5/2/19xx?
1946-107 1933-12-10 Sunday
1946-108 1920-05-09 Sunday
1946-109 1933-02-19 Sunday
1946-110a 1932-03-23 daily
1946-110b 1931-06-01 daily
1946-110c 1931-06-02 daily
1946-110d 1931-06-04 daily
1946-111 1919-08-17 Sunday
1946-112 1919-09-21 Sunday
1946-113 1933-05-28 Sunday
1946-114 1936-01-26 Sunday
1946-115a 1931-10-15 daily ?year
1946-115b 1931-02-21 daily
1946-115c daily 3/18/193x?; not 31
1946-115d 1935-10-28 daily
1946-116 1933-03-12 Sunday
1946-117 1942-01-25 Sunday
1946-118 1942-08-30 Sunday
1946-119 1937-04-04 Sunday
1946-120a 1932-06-21 daily
1946-120b 1932-05-27 daily
1946-120c 1932-06-22 daily
1946-120d 1931-10-26 daily
1946-121 1936-08-01 Sunday
1946-122 1942-07-05 Sunday
1946-123 1935-11-03 Sunday
1946-124 1937-03-07 Sunday
1946-125 1939-07-02 Sunday
1946-126 1937-10-24 Sunday
1946-127 1941-12-28 Sunday
1946-128 1944-02-27 Sunday
1946-129 1941-01-12 Sunday
1946-130a 1944-04-27 daily
1946-130b 1943-11-15 daily
1946-130c 1943-11-18 daily only 3 dailies on page
1946-131 1944-02-20 Sunday
1946-132 1940-05-19 Sunday
1946-133 1937-01-31 Sunday
1946-134 1943-10-10 Sunday
1946-135 1938-08-28 Sunday
1946-136 1938-04-17 Sunday
1946-137 1944-04-02 Sunday
1946-138 1941-05-04 Sunday
1946-139a daily 3/14/193x?
1946-139b 1935-12-11 daily
1946-139c 1932-12-19 daily
1946-139d daily 4/2/19xx?
1946-140 1942-09-27 Sunday
1946-141 1939-11-12 Sunday
1946-142a 1941-12-16 daily
1946-142b 1941-12-17 daily
1946-142c 1943-07-27 daily
1946-142d 1941-03-31 daily
1946-143 1944-03-19 Sunday
1946-144 1938-12-18 Sunday
1946-145 1940-02-25 Sunday
1946-146 1942-08-23 Sunday
1946-147 1943-09-26 Sunday
1946-148 1939-02-26 Sunday
1946-149 1943-06-27 Sunday
1946-150a 1932-11-21 daily
1946-150b 1932-11-25 daily
1946-150c 1932-11-24 daily
1946-150d 1931-03-13 daily
1946-151 1937-05-16 Sunday
1946-152 1942-07-12 Sunday
1946-153 1940-03-10 Sunday
1946-154a 1938-12-12 daily
1946-154b daily 7/9/19xx?
1946-154c 1941-12-02 daily
1946-154d daily 2/12/19xx?
1946-155 1934-08-05 Sunday
1946-156 1917-06-17 Sunday
1946-157 1941-07-13 Sunday
1946-158 1934-01-28 Sunday
1946-159a 1939-06-20 daily
1946-159b 1932-07-11 daily
1946-159c 1931-11-04 daily
1946-159d 1931-10-29 daily
1946-160 1940-01-28 Sunday
1946-161 1943-01-17 Sunday
1946-162 1936-07-05 Sunday
1946-163 1940-03-17 Sunday
1946-164a 1930-05-02 daily
1946-164b 1933-09-01 daily
1946-164c 1935-02-23 daily ?year
1946-164d 1932-04-11 daily
1946-165 1922-11-05 Sunday
1946-166 1918-08-18 Sunday
1946-167 1938-02-06 Sunday
1946-168 1943-03-07 Sunday
1946-169 1942-09-06 Sunday
1946-170 1943-10-24 Sunday
1946-171a 1943-09-29 daily
1946-171b 1943-06-07 daily
1946-171c 1943-06-15 daily
1946-171d 1943-03-05 daily
1946-172 1941-11-02 Sunday
1946-173 1944-03-12 Sunday
1946-174 1944-01-23 Sunday
1946-175 1936-12-27 Sunday
1946-176 1943-12-31 Sunday strip dated 31st
1946-177a 1932-04-13 daily
1946-177b 1932-03-21 daily
1946-177c 1932-03-25 daily
1946-177d 1933-09-02 daily
1946-178 1941-11-30 Sunday
1946-179 1942-11-22 Sunday
1946-180 1943-08-22 Sunday
1946-181 1939-10-22 Sunday
1946-182 1943-12-05 Sunday
1946-183 1940-05-12 Sunday
1946-184 1938-04-03 Sunday
1946-185 1936-12-13 Sunday

Grosset & Dunlap/Nostalgia Press/Madison Square Press

  • Krazy Kat: A Classic from the Golden Age of Comics (1969, 1975): An entirely different compilation of dailies and Sundays, with examples from the entire run of the strip—including 23 The Dingbat Family bottom strips. Reprints the e.e. cummings introduction from the Henry Holt volume. 8 pages in full color; some later editions have daily strips reproduced in blue ink. ISBN 0-448-11945-5 (hardcover), ISBN 0-448-11951-X (paperback)
Contents of book:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
1969-006-7 1941-11-23 Sunday
1969-008-016 cummings introduction
1969-018-021 daily several Dingbats w/ Krazy under
1969-022-032 daily 21, from under Dingbats, 1911–12
1969-034 1919-11-16 Sunday
1969-035 1920-02-15 Sunday repeat of 11/16/19
1969-036-7 1919-07-27 Sunday
1969-038-9 1920-05-30 Sunday
1969-040-1 1916-09-24 Sunday
1969-042-3 1922-06-18 Sunday
1969-044-5 1919-12-28 Sunday
1969-046-7 1919-12-07 Sunday
1969-048 1928-01-15 Sunday
1969-050a daily 1/30/193x?
1969-050b daily 5/19/194x?
1969-050c daily 1/31/193x?
1969-050d daily 5/20/194x?
1969-051a 1940-05-27 daily
1969-051b 1940-08-19 daily
1969-051c 1940-08-20 daily
1969-051d daily 4/20/19xx?
1969-052a daily 2/25/192x?
1969-052b daily 2/27/192x?
1969-053a daily 2/28/192x?
1969-053b daily seq w/ above 3
1969-054a daily 3/9/193x?
1969-054b daily 3/10/193x?
1969-054c daily 3/11/193x?
1969-054d daily 3/12/193x?
1969-055 1935-02-24 daily
1969-056 1927-01-16 daily
1969-057a 1938-08-15 daily
1969-057b 1938-08-16 daily
1969-057c 1938-08-17 daily
1969-057d 1938-08-18 daily
1969-058a daily 8/19/193x?
1969-058b daily 8/20/193x?
1969-058c daily 5/2/193x?
1969-058d daily 5/3/193x?
1969-059a 1943-03-08 daily
1969-059b 1943-03-09 daily
1969-059c 1943-03-10 daily
1969-059d daily 2/28/193x?
1969-060a 1935-09-11 daily
1969-060b 1935-09-13 daily
1969-060c

1969-060c

1935-09-14 daily
1969-060d 1935-09-16 daily
1969-061 1921-05-08 Sunday
1969-062 1930-12-14 Sunday
1969-063a daily 7/17/194x?
1969-063b daily 2/2/193x?
1969-063c daily 1/23/193x?
1969-063d daily 1/26/193x?
1969-064a daily 2/1/193x?
1969-064b 1943-03-02 daily
1969-064c 1942-08-15 daily
1969-064d 1943-11-09 daily
1969-065a daily 10/23/193x?
1969-065b daily 10/7/193x?
1969-065c daily 10/11/193x?
1969-065d daily 10/24/193x?
1969-066a daily 10/25/193x?
1969-066b daily 10/26/193x?
1969-066c daily 10/27/193x?
1969-066d daily 10/28/193x?
1969-067 1944-06-04
1969-068 1937-10-17
1969-069a daily 7/29/193x?
1969-069b daily 10/14/193x?
1969-069c daily 10/11/193x?
1969-069d daily 10/9/193x?
1969-070a daily 9/1/193x?
1969-070b daily 1/17/193x?
1969-070c daily 9/29/193x?
1969-070d daily 9/30/193x?
1969-071a daily 7/11/193x?
1969-071b daily 7/12/193x?
1969-071c daily 7/13/193x?
1969-071d daily 7/16/193x?
1969-072 1925-05-03 Sunday
1969-073a daily 3/25/193x?
1969-073b daily 3/26/193x?
1969-073c daily 3/27/193x?
1969-073d daily 3/28/193x?
1969-074a 1940-08-21 daily ?year
1969-074b daily 8/1/1940?
1969-074c daily 7/23/1940?
1969-074d 1940-08-22 daily
1969-075a daily 12/11/193x?
1969-075b daily 3/26/1933x?
1969-075c daily 5/15/193x?
1969-075d daily 9/21/193x?
1969-076 Sunday 6/24/1934? Poss misdated
1969-077 1933-05-28 Sunday
1969-078a 1941-04-09 daily
1969-078b 1941-04-10 daily
1969-078c daily 5/19/193x?
1969-078d daily 5/20/193x?
1969-079a 1941-02-01 daily
1969-079b daily 6/5/193x?
1969-079c daily 2/20/193x?
1969-079d daily 7/6/194x?
1969-080 1937-08-08 Sunday
1969-082 1933-11-12 Sunday color section
1969-083 1938-09-25 Sunday color section
1969-084 1939-06-11 Sunday color section
1969-085 1916-09-03 Sunday color section
1969-086 1919-09-07 Sunday color section
1969-087 1942-01-18 Sunday color section
1969-088 1917-12-30 Sunday color section
1969-090a 1936-06-01 daily
1969-090b 1936-06-02 daily start 1969 Tiger Tea excerpt
1969-090c 1936-06-12 daily Tiger Tea
1969-091a 1936-06-13 daily Tiger Tea
1969-091b 1936-06-15 daily Tiger Tea
1969-091c 1936-06-16 daily Tiger Tea
1969-092a 1936-06-17 daily Tiger Tea
1969-092b 1936-06-18 daily Tiger Tea
1969-092c 1936-06-19 daily Tiger Tea
1969-093a 1936-06-20 daily Tiger Tea
1969-093b 1936-06-22 daily Tiger Tea
1969-093c 1936-06-23 daily Tiger Tea
1969-094a 1936-06-24 daily Tiger Tea
1969-094b 1936-06-25 daily Tiger Tea
1969-094c 1936-06-26 daily Tiger Tea
1969-095a 1936-06-27 daily Tiger Tea
1969-095b 1936-06-29 daily Tiger Tea
1969-095c 1936-06-30 daily Tiger Tea
1969-096a 1936-07-01 daily Tiger Tea
1969-096b 1936-07-02 daily Tiger Tea
1969-096c 1936-07-27 daily Tiger Tea
1969-097a 1936-07-28 daily Tiger Tea
1969-097b 1936-07-29 daily Tiger Tea
1969-097c 1936-09-14 daily Tiger Tea
1969-098a 1936-09-15 daily Tiger Tea
1969-098a 1936-09-15 daily Tiger Tea
1969-098b 1937-02-22 daily Tiger Tea
1969-098c 1937-02-23 daily Tiger Tea
1969-099a 1937-02-24 daily Tiger Tea
1969-099b 1937-02-25 daily Tiger Tea
1969-099c 1937-02-26 daily Tiger Tea
1969-100a 1937-02-27 daily Tiger Tea
1969-100b 1936-12-07 daily Tiger Tea
1969-100c 1936-12-05 daily Tiger Tea
1969-100c 1936-12-05 daily Tiger Tea
1969-101a 1936-12-14 daily Tiger Tea
1969-101b 1936-12-15 daily Tiger Tea
1969-101c 1936-12-16 daily Tiger Tea
1969-102a 1936-12-17 daily Tiger Tea
1969-102b 1936-12-18 daily Tiger Tea
1969-102c 1936-12-19 daily Tiger Tea
1969-103a 1936-12-21 daily Tiger Tea
1969-103b 1936-12-22 daily Tiger Tea
1969-103c 1936-12-23 daily Tiger Tea
1969-104a 1936-12-24 daily Tiger Tea
1969-104b 1936-12-25 daily Tiger Tea
1969-104c 1936-12-26 daily end 1969 Tiger Tea excerpt
1969-106 1931-01-18 Sunday repeat of 1/28/1923
1969-107a 1935-12-02 daily ?year
1969-107b 1935-12-03 daily ?year
1969-107c 1935-12-04 daily ?year
1969-107d 1935-12-05 daily ?year
1969-108a 1936-02-04 daily
1969-108b 1936-02-05 daily
1969-108c 1936-02-07 daily
1969-108d 1936-02-08 daily
1969-109 1919-06-29 Sunday
1969-110 Sunday Kat phone antics
1969-111a 1943-09-23 daily ?year
1969-111b daily 9/14/194x?
1969-111c 1942-01-09 daily
1969-111d daily 11/2/194x?
1969-112a 1938-01-29 daily
1969-112b daily 7/28/19xx?
1969-112c daily 3/9/193x?
1969-112d 1938-07-27 daily
1969-113 1933-02-19 Sunday
1969-114 1932-01-10 Sunday
1969-115a 1943-06-14 daily
1969-115b 1943-06-15 daily
1969-115c 1943-06-16 daily
1969-115d 1943-06-19 daily
1969-116a daily 1/6/193x?
1969-116b daily 1/7/193x?
1969-116c daily 1/4/193x?
1969-116d daily 1/5/193x?
1969-117a 1927-04-26 daily
1969-117b 1926-11-22 daily
1969-118a 1940-10-04 daily
1969-118b 1937-05-21 daily
1969-118c 1937-05-22 daily
1969-118d 1940-10-05 daily
1969-119a 1926-05-26 daily
1969-119b 1926-09-30 daily
1969-120 1933-04-09 Sunday
1969-122a 1937-12-20 daily
1969-122b 1937-12-21 daily
1969-122c 1937-12-22 daily
1969-122d 1937-12-23 daily
1969-123 1922-10-15 Sunday
1969-124 1942-08-02 Sunday
1969-125a 1943-05-17 daily
1969-125b 1943-05-18 daily
1969-125c 1942-07-31 daily
1969-125d 1943-05-19 daily
1969-126a 1936-01-20 daily
1969-126b 1936-01-21 daily
1969-126c 1936-01-22 daily
1969-126d 1936-01-23 daily
1969-127a 1943-05-05 daily
1969-127b 1943-05-06 daily
1969-127c 1943-05-07 daily
1969-127d 1943-05-08 daily
1969-128 1920-03-14 Sunday
1969-129a 1942-05-11 daily
1969-129b 1942-05-12 daily
1969-129c 1942-11-02 daily
1969-129d 1942-11-03 daily
1969-130a 1942-11-04 daily
1969-130b 1942-11-05 daily
1969-130c 1942-11-06 daily
1969-130d 1942-11-11 daily
1969-131a 1944-02-10 daily
1969-131b 1944-02-09 daily
1969-131c daily 1/12/193x?
1969-131d daily 1/13/193x?
1969-132 1941-06-15 Sunday
1969-133a 1935-12-30 daily
1969-133b 1936-01-02 daily
1969-133c 1936-01-03 daily
1969-133d 1936-01-04 daily
1969-134-5 1917-06-17
1969-136 1928-12-30 Sunday
1969-137a 1937-12-24 daily
1969-137b 1937-12-25 daily
1969-137c 1937-12-27 daily
1969-137d 1937-12-28 daily
1969-138a 1943-04-12 daily
1969-138b 1943-04-13 daily
1969-138c 1943-04-16 daily
1969-138d 1943-04-14 daily
1969-139a 1943-05-03 daily
1969-139b 1943-05-04 daily
1969-139c 1939-05-08 daily
1969-139d 1941-03-09 daily ?year
1969-140a daily 1/3/193x?
1969-140b daily 1/4/193x?
1969-140c daily 1/5/193x?
1969-140d daily 1/6/193x?
1969-141 1941-03-09 Sunday
1969-142 1933-07-23 Sunday
1969-143a 1941-12-22 daily
1969-143b 1941-12-23 daily
1969-143c 1941-12-25 daily
1969-143d 1941-12-30 daily
1969-144a daily 11/27/194x?
1969-144b daily 6/13/193x?
1969-144c daily 3/22/193x?
1969-144d daily 3/3/193x?
1969-145a 1940-02-19 daily
1969-145b 1940-02-20 daily
1969-145c 1940-02-21 daily
1969-145d 1940-02-22 daily
1969-146a daily 4/7/193x?
1969-146b daily 2/23/193x?
1969-146c daily 2/24/193x?
1969-146d 1939-04-08 daily
1969-147a 1941-04-07 daily
1969-147b 1939-09-20 daily
1969-147c 1943-11-16 daily
1969-147d 1943-04-08 daily
1969-148a daily 6/17/194x?
1969-148b 1943-04-06 daily
1969-148c 1943-04-07 daily
1969-148d 1943-04-22 daily
1969-149a 1938-03-07 daily
1969-149b 1938-03-08 daily
1969-149c 1938-03-09 daily
1969-149d 1938-03-10 daily
1969-150a 1938-03-11 daily
1969-150b 1938-03-12 daily
1969-150c 1938-03-14 daily
1969-150d 1938-03-15 daily
1969-151a 1938-03-16 daily
1969-151b 1938-03-17 daily
1969-151c 1938-03-18 daily
1969-151d 1938-03-19 daily
1969-152a daily 12/29/194x?
1969-152b daily 12/30/194x?
1969-152c daily 12/31/194x?
1969-152d daily 1/1/194x?
1969-154a daily 4/2/19xx?
1969-154b daily 4/11/19xx?
1969-154c 1943-09-17 daily
1969-154d daily 10/28/194x?
1969-155a daily 3/28/1944x?
1969-155b 1943-10-18 daily
1969-155c 1936-01-27 daily ?year
1969-155d daily 1/5/19xx?
1969-156 1942-07-26 Sunday
1969-157a 1943-10-28 daily
1969-157b daily 3/7/19xx?
1969-157c 1940-11-21 daily
1969-157d daily 7/1/194x?
1969-158a 1927-02-14 daily
1969-158b 1927-02-15 daily
1969-159a 1939-07-19 daily
1969-159b 1939-07-17 daily
1969-159c 1939-07-18 daily
1969-159d 1939-07-20 daily
1969-160a daily 6/7/193x?
1969-160b 1941-01-10 daily
1969-160c daily 11/29/193x?
1969-160d 1943-06-03 daily
1969-161 1932-03-13 Sunday
1969-162a daily 12/25/193x?
1969-162b daily 12/26/193x?
1969-162c 1943-11-19 daily
1969-162d 1943-11-20 daily
1969-163a 1937-07-14 daily
1969-163b 1937-07-15 daily
1969-163c 1937-07-16 daily
1969-163d 1937-07-17 daily
1969-164a daily 6/20/19xx?
1969-164b 1941-05-21 daily
1969-164c 1941-06-19 daily
1969-164d 1942-10-19 daily
1969-165 1916-10-15 Sunday
1969-166a 1941-06-16 daily
1969-166b daily 1/5/194x?
1969-166c 1941-07-14 daily
1969-166d daily 6/13/194x?
1969-167a 1941-12-06 daily
1969-167b 1941-03-31 daily
1969-167c 1944-05-02 daily
1969-167d 1944-05-29 daily
1969-168 1917-06-17 Sunday epitaph from end of strip
1969-Back 1943-05-09 Sunday color

Street Enterprises (Menomonee Falls)

  • (George Herriman's) Krazy Kat Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1973): 32-page newsprint magazine reprinting 60 daily strips from July 3 – October 28, 1933. Inside cover claims inaccurately that they are from 1935.

Real Free Press

  • Krazy Kat Komix, Nos. 1–5 (1974–1976): Joost Swarte, ed. The 5-issue magazine also features other Herriman strips.

Hyperion Press

  • The Family Upstairs: Introducing Krazy Kat: The Complete Strip, 1910–1912 (1977, 1992): Introduction by Bill Blackbeard. ISBN 0-88355-643-X (hardcover), ISBN 0-88355-642-1 (softcover)

Harry N. Abrams

  • Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman (1986): Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, eds. Various strips in B&W and color, mostly from original art, including some watercolor paintings. ISBN 0-8109-8152-1 (hardcover), ISBN 0-8109-9185-3 (softcover)
Contents of book:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
1986-004-005 1939-08-30 daily
1986-007 1917-11-11 Sunday color orig
1986-008 1919-06-22 Sunday
1986-011 1941-12-21 Sunday
1986-012 1939-06-11 Sunday
1986-014 1938-10-16 Sunday color orig
1986-019 1935-07-22 daily
1986-021 1922-10-15 Sunday
1986-023 1943-02-28 Sunday
1986-026-027 daily 2 early, 'underneath' strips
1986-029 1919-05-04 Sunday
1986-032 1915-05-12 daily
1986-041 daily early 5 panel vert
1986-055a 1910-07-29 daily Dingbat w/cat & mouse
1986-055b 1910-11-22 daily under strip
1986-055c 1911-07-18 daily under strip
1986-056 1917-12-24 daily
1986-057 1928-03-04 Sunday
1986-059a 1912-07-02 daily
1986-059b 1912-07-05 daily
1986-059c 1912-07-15 daily
1986-059d 1912-07-16 daily
1986-060 1917-12-09 Sunday
1986-061 1918-01-06 daily mis-captioned:Jan 6 was a Sunday
1986-062 1918-05-04 daily
1986-063 1919-12-25 daily
1986-069 1940-09-23 daily
1986-077 1918-10-15 daily partial
1986-082 1938-03-08 daily
1986-085a 1936-06-24 daily
1986-085b April 1944, unfnished
1986-089 1919-03-07 daily
1986-090a 1918-01-21 daily
1986-090b 1918-02-12 daily
1986-090c 1920-05-24 daily
1986-090d 1920-08-17 daily
1986-091a 1920-08-30 daily
1986-091b 1921-09-21 daily
1986-091c 1921-09-23 daily
1986-091d 1922-07-22 daily
1986-092a 1923-10-06 daily
1986-092b 1930-11-06 daily
1986-092c 1938-07-04 daily
1986-092d 1938-07-05 daily
1986-093a 1938-07-09 daily
1986-093b 1938-07-29 daily
1986-093c 1938-07-30 daily
1986-093d 1938-09-05 daily
1986-094a 1935-10-26 daily
1986-094b 1938-09-06 daily
1986-094c 1938-09-07 daily
1986-094d 1938-09-09 daily
1986-095a 1938-09-10 daily
1986-095b 1938-10-24 daily
1986-095c 1938-10-25 daily
1986-095d 1938-10-26 daily
1986-096a 1938-10-27 daily
1986-096b 1938-10-28 daily
1986-096c 1938-10-29 daily
1986-096d 1939-01-23 daily
1986-097a 1939-01-24 daily
1986-097b 1939-01-25 daily
1986-097c 1939-01-26 daily
1986-097d 1939-06-13 daily
1986-098a 1939-06-14 daily
1986-098b 1939-06-16 daily
1986-098c 1939-06-17 daily
1986-098d 1939-11-13 daily
1986-099a 1939-11-14 daily
1986-099b 1939-11-15 daily
1986-099c 1939-11-16 daily
1986-099d 1939-11-17 daily
1986-100a 1939-11-18 daily
1986-100b 1940-09-09 daily
1986-100c 1940-09-11 daily
1986-100d 1940-09-12 daily
1986-101a 1940-09-13 daily
1986-101b 1940-09-14 daily
1986-101c 1941-02-10 daily
1986-101d 1941-02-11 daily
1986-102a 1941-02-12 daily
1986-102b 1941-02-13 daily
1986-102c 1941-02-14 daily
1986-102d 1941-02-15 daily
1986-103a 1941-04-26 daily
1986-103b 1941-06-02 daily
1986-103c 1941-06-03 daily
1986-103d 1941-06-04 daily
1986-104a 1941-06-05 daily
1986-104b 1941-06-06 daily
1986-104c 1941-06-07 daily
1986-104d 1941-07-21 daily
1986-105a 1942-07-27 daily
1986-105b 1942-07-28 daily
1986-105c 1942-07-29 daily
1986-105d 1942-07-30 daily
1986-106a 1942-07-31 daily
1986-106b 1942-08-01 daily
1986-106c 1943-04-10 daily
1986-106d 1943-07-01 daily
1986-107a 1943-07-02 daily
1986-107b 1943-07-03 daily
1986-107c 1944-01-14 daily
1986-107d 1944-01-15 daily
1986-108 1916-04-23 Sunday
1986-109 1916-04-30 Sunday
1986-110 1916-12-03 Sunday color orig
1986-111 1918-11-17 Sunday color orig; mis-captioned 1916
1986-112 1916-09-03 Sunday
1986-113 1916-09-17 Sunday
1986-114 1916-05-21 Sunday color orig
1986-115 1936-08-08 Sunday color orig
1986-116 1916-10-15 Sunday
1986-117 1916-12-03 Sunday
1986-118 1937-10-17 Sunday
1986-119 1938-03-06 Sunday
1986-120 1917-01-14 Sunday
1986-121 1917-06-17 Sunday
1986-122 1917-08-19 Sunday
1986-123 1917-09-09 Sunday
1986-124 1917-09-16 Sunday
1986-125 1917-09-23 Sunday
1986-126 1940-03-10 Sunday
1986-127 1940-04-14 Sunday
1986-128 1917-01-21 Sunday mis-captioned 11/21
1986-129 1918-01-06 Sunday
1986-130 1918-02-03 Sunday
1986-131 1918-04-14 Sunday mis-captioned 4/4
1986-132 1918-05-05 Sunday
1986-133 1918-06-30 Sunday mis-captioned 6/3
1986-134 1918-07-21 Sunday
1986-135 1918-08-11 Sunday mis-captioned 8/14
1986-136 1918-08-25 Sunday
1986-137 1918-09-29 Sunday
1986-138 1940-04-21 Sunday
1986-139 1940-05-05 Sunday
1986-140 1918-10-27 Sunday
1986-141 1918-11-10 Sunday
1986-142 1940-06-02 Sunday mis-captioned 6/1
1986-143 1940-07-14 Sunday
1986-144 1918-12-15 Sunday
1986-145 1918-01-27 Sunday mis-captioned 1/20
1986-146 1919-02-02 Sunday
1986-147 1919-03-09 Sunday
1986-148 1919-03-16 Sunday
1986-149 1919-03-30 Sunday
1986-150 1940-10-06 Sunday
1986-151 1940-11-10 Sunday
1986-152 1919-05-18 Sunday
1986-153 1919-07-27 Sunday
1986-154 1919-09-07 Sunday
1986-155 1919-09-28 Sunday
1986-156 1919-12-07 Sunday
1986-157 1917-12-30 Sunday mis-captioned 12/21/1919
1986-158 1940-11-17 Sunday
1986-159 1941-01-12 Sunday
1986-160 1919-12-28 Sunday
1986-161 1920-10-10 Sunday captioned "c. 1919"
1986-162 1941-01-26 Sunday mis-captioned 1/25
1986-163 1941-03-09 Sunday
1986-164 1920-03-21 Sunday
1986-165 1920-04-25 Sunday
1986-166 1921-09-25 Sunday
1986-167 1922-02-05 Sunday
1986-168 1922-04-02 Sunday
1986-169 1922-04-16 Sunday
1986-170 1941-03-23 Sunday
1986-171 1941-04-13 Sunday
1986-172 1922-05-14 Sunday
1986-173 1922-06-18 Sunday
1986-174 1941-05-11 Sunday
1986-175 1941-07-06 Sunday
1986-176 1922-07-16 Sunday
1986-177 1922-07-23 Sunday
1986-178 1941-07-27 Sunday
1986-179 1941-10-05 Sunday
1986-180 1922-09-10 Sunday
1986-181 1922-11-12 Sunday
1986-182 1920-11-28 Sunday
1986-183 1920-08-22 Sunday mis-captioned 5/5
1986-184 1925-02-15 Sunday
1986-186 1925-11-22 Sunday
1986-186 1941-10-12 Sunday
1986-187 1941-10-26 Sunday
1986-188 1926-03-07 Sunday
1986-189 1926-05-23 Sunday
1986-190 1941-11-16 Sunday
1986-191 1941-11-30 Sunday
1986-192 1928-01-08 Sunday mis-captioned 7/29/1929
1986-193 1933-03-12 Sunday
1986-194 1935-11-03 Sunday
1986-195 1937-04-04 Sunday
1986-196 1938-05-15 Sunday
1986-197 1942-12-27 Sunday
1986-198 1939-07-02 Sunday
1986-199 1939-07-23 Sunday
1986-200 1939-07-30 Sunday
1986-201 1940-09-08 Sunday
1986-202 1940-11-03 Sunday
1986-203 1941-02-23 Sunday
1986-204 1943-03-07 Sunday
1986-205 1943-04-11 Sunday
1986-206 1942-01-11 Sunday
1986-207 1942-01-25 Sunday
1986-208 1941-09-14 Sunday mis-captioned 43
1986-209 1944-04-23 Sunday
1986-210 1944-02-20 Sunday
1986-211 1944-06-25 Sunday LAST Sunday strip
1986-214 daily 10/?/1915
1986-217 daily ?/?/1915
1986-220 1922-06-11 Sunday

Morning Star Publications

  • Coconino Chronicle (1988): Alec Finlay, ed. 130 strips from 1927 to 1928.

Eclipse Comics

Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics (series): Bill Blackbeard, ed. Each of these volumes reprints a year of Sunday strips.

Kitchen Sink Press

The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat (series). Each volume reprinted two years of Sundays. The publisher dissolved before the series' aim of completeness could be achieved.

Stinging Monkey/BookSurge

  • Krazy & Ignatz, The Dailies. Vol 1: 1918–1919 (2001, 2003): Gregory Fink, ed., introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Stinging Monkey edition in large format, ISBN 978-0-9688676-0-0. BookSurge reprint in smaller 7.9 × 6 inch format, ISBN 1-59109-975-7, ISBN 978-1-59109-975-8. Reprints complete run of dailies from Aug 26, 1918, to Jun 28, 1919.

Pacific Comics

All the Daily Strips.... (series) 6¼ x 6¼ inch format.

  • Krazy Kat vol 1: 1921 (2003)
  • Krazy Kat vol 2: 1922 (2004)
  • Krazy Kat Vol 3: 1923 (2005)

Presents Krazy and Ignatz (series) Four 3¼ x 4 inch volumes reproducing the 1921 strips in miniature.

Fantagraphics Books

In 2002, Fantagraphics began to publish a series of paperbacks – picking up where Eclipse Comics left off – with introductory essays and other bonuses, such as rare artworks and photographs. Bill Blackbeard is the series editor, Chris Ware the cover and interior designer. For the first time ever, Fantagraphics reprinted the entirety of Krazy Kat Sundays: the first ten volumes collect two years worth of Sundays each (the first five in black and white, the last five in color – reflecting the shift in the original newspaper version); the last three paperbacks comprise the black and white Sundays already reprinted by Eclipse, presenting three years worth of material per volume.

  • Krazy & Ignatz in "There Is A Heppy Lend Furfur A-Waay": 1925–1926 (2002) ISBN 1-56097-386-2
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "Love Letters In Ancient Brick": 1927–1928 (2002) ISBN 1-56097-507-5
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night": 1929–1930 (2003) ISBN 1-56097-529-6
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Kat Alilt with Song": 1931–1932 (2004) ISBN 1-56097-594-6
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush": 1933–1934 (2005) ISBN 1-56097-620-9
    • Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1925–1934: Collects the previous five paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. ISBN 1-56097-522-9
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy": 1935–1936 (2005) ISBN 1-56097-690-X, 2005
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "Shifting Sands Dusts its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty": 1937–1938 (2006) ISBN 1-56097-734-5
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Brick Stuffed with Moom-bins": 1939–1940 (2007) ISBN 1-56097-789-2
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Ragout of Raspberries": 1941–1942 (2007) ISBN 1-56097-887-2
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "He Nods in Quiescent Siesta": 1943–1944 (2008) ISBN 1-56097-932-1
    • Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1935–1944: Collects the previous five paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-56097-841-1
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "Love in a Kestle or Love in a Hut": 1916–1918 (2010) ISBN 1-60699-316-X
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "A Kind, Benevolent and Amiable Brick": 1919–1921 (2011) ISBN 1-60699-364-X
  • Krazy & Ignatz in "At Last My Drim of Love Has Come True": 1922–1924 (2012) ISBN 1-60699-477-8 (also includes the complete Us Husbands, another strip of Herriman, unrelated to Krazy Kat)
    • Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips: 1916–1924: Collects the previous three paperbacks in a single hardcover volume. Only 1000 copies printed, only available by direct order from the publisher. ISBN 1-60699-428-X
  • Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty (2007) ISBN 1-56097-854-6: This volume, unrelated to the previous collections (both in design and format), is a horizontal hardcover which reprints:
    • Some daily strips from 1911 and 1912 (including a sequence from July 2 to 16) and 32 from 1914 (only a few of which can be dated by cross reference to other collections).
    • Plus (in large-format) all daily strips from March 4 to October 30, 1920 and from September 13 to October 15, 1921 (except Sept. 15, 19, 20, 27, 30, and Oct. 5-7).
    • Also included is the artwork that Herriman drew for the program of a 1922 pantomime ballet based on Krazy Kat (reproduced larger than in the Eclipse 1923 and The George Herriman Library 1922–1924 collections).

Starting from 2019, Fantagraphics began to publish a new collection of Krazy Kat Sundays. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz, a series of deluxe hardcovers, whose format is much wider than the one of the previous paperbacks, collects 3 years worth of Sundays per volume. The bonus material, while largely similar to the one of the previous collections, presents some differences, though, such as new essays and images. Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard are the series editors, while Keeli McCarthy is the cover and interior designer.

Sunday Press Books

  • Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays (2010): Patrick McDonnell, Peter Maresca, eds. Sunday Press Books. Various Sundays reprinted in their original size and colors. ISBN 0-9768885-8-0 (hardcover)
Contents of book:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
CelebSundays-001 1917-10-28 Sunday orig, color
CelebSundays-004 1918-06-09 Sunday
CelebSundays-007 Daily 1912, orig
CelebSundays-008 1916-04-23 Sunday
CelebSundays-009 1916-04-30 Sunday
CelebSundays-010 1916-05-21 Sunday
CelebSundays-011 1916-06-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-012 1916-09-03 Sunday
CelebSundays-013 1916-10-15 Sunday
CelebSundays-014 1916-10-29 Sunday
CelebSundays-015 1916-11-12 Sunday
CelebSundays-016 1916-11-19 Sunday
CelebSundays-017 1916-12-03 Sunday
CelebSundays-018 1916-12-31 Sunday
CelebSundays-019 1917-02-18 Sunday
CelebSundays-020 1917-03-04 Sunday
CelebSundays-021 1917-03-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-022 1917-05-06 Sunday
CelebSundays-023 1917-09-09 Sunday
CelebSundays-024 1917-09-16 Sunday
CelebSundays-025 1917-09-23 Sunday
CelebSundays-026 1917-10-28 Sunday
CelebSundays-027 1917-12-02 Sunday
CelebSundays-028 1918-01-09 Sunday
CelebSundays-029 1918-03-17 Sunday
CelebSundays-030 1918-03-24 Sunday
CelebSundays-031 1918-06-23 Sunday
CelebSundays-032 1918-07-07 Sunday
CelebSundays-033 1918-07-14 Sunday
CelebSundays-034 1918-08-04 Sunday
CelebSundays-035 1918-08-18 Sunday
CelebSundays-036 1918-09-29 Sunday
CelebSundays-037 1918-10-06 Sunday
CelebSundays-038 1918-10-27 Sunday
CelebSundays-039 1918-11-03 Sunday
CelebSundays-040 1918-11-24 Sunday
CelebSundays-041 1918-12-01 Sunday
CelebSundays-042 1919-01-05 Sunday
CelebSundays-043 1919-01-26 Sunday
CelebSundays-044 1919-02-16 Sunday
CelebSundays-045 1919-04-06 Sunday
CelebSundays-046 1919-04-13 Sunday
CelebSundays-047 1919-04-20 Sunday
CelebSundays-048 1919-04-27 Sunday
CelebSundays-049 1919-05-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-050 1919-06-15 Sunday
CelebSundays-051 1919-06-22 Sunday
CelebSundays-052 1919-07-20 Sunday
CelebSundays-053 1919-08-03 Sunday
CelebSundays-054 1919-08-10 Sunday
CelebSundays-055 1919-08-31 Sunday
CelebSundays-056 1919-09-07 Sunday
CelebSundays-057 1919-09-14 Sunday
CelebSundays-058 1921-09-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-059 1922-01-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-060 1922-01-28 Sunday color
CelebSundays-061 1922-02-25 Sunday color
CelebSundays-062 1922-03-05 Sunday
CelebSundays-063 1922-04-16 Sunday
CelebSundays-064 1922-06-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-065 1922-06-18 Sunday
CelebSundays-066 1922-07-02 Sunday
CelebSundays-067 1923-01-28 Sunday
CelebSundays-068 1923-02-11 Sunday
CelebSundays-069 1924-01-06 Sunday
CelebSundays-070 1927-09-04 Sunday
CelebSundays-071 1929-05-19 Sunday
CelebSundays-072 1930-12-28 Sunday
CelebSundays-073 1935-06-01 Sunday color
CelebSundays-074 1935-10-06 Sunday color
CelebSundays-075 1936-05-17 Sunday color
CelebSundays-076 1937-01-17 Sunday color
CelebSundays-077 1937-04-04 Sunday color
CelebSundays-078 1937-11-14 Sunday color
CelebSundays-079 1937-11-28 Sunday color
CelebSundays-080 1937-12-26 Sunday color
CelebSundays-081 1938-01-02 Sunday color
CelebSundays-082 1938-01-30 Sunday color
CelebSundays-083 1938-03-06 Sunday color
CelebSundays-084 1938-04-24 Sunday color
CelebSundays-085 1938-05-15 Sunday color
CelebSundays-086 1938-08-07 Sunday color
CelebSundays-087 1938-08-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-088 1938-08-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-089 1938-09-11 Sunday color
CelebSundays-090 1938-10-09 Sunday color
CelebSundays-091 1938-11-27 Sunday color
CelebSundays-092 1938-12-11 Sunday color
CelebSundays-093 1938-12-25 Sunday color
CelebSundays-094 1939-01-08 Sunday color
CelebSundays-095 1939-05-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-096 1939-06-11 Sunday color
CelebSundays-097 1939-07-30 Sunday color
CelebSundays-098 1939-08-27 Sunday color
CelebSundays-099 1939-10-22 Sunday color
CelebSundays-100 1939-10-29 Sunday color
CelebSundays-101 1939-11-12 Sunday color
CelebSundays-102 1939-12-17 Sunday color
CelebSundays-103 1939-12-31 Sunday color
CelebSundays-104 1940-03-10 Sunday color
CelebSundays-105 1940-04-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-106 1940-05-05 Sunday color
CelebSundays-107 1940-05-12 Sunday color
CelebSundays-108 1940-06-01 Sunday color
CelebSundays-109 1940-07-07 Sunday color
CelebSundays-110 1940-07-14 Sunday color
CelebSundays-111 1940-10-06 Sunday color
CelebSundays-112 1940-11-03 Sunday color
CelebSundays-113 1941-01-25 Sunday color
CelebSundays-114 1941-06-08 Sunday color
CelebSundays-115 1941-06-15 Sunday color
CelebSundays-116 1941-07-27 Sunday color
CelebSundays-117 1941-08-24 Sunday color
CelebSundays-118 1941-10-26 Sunday color
CelebSundays-119 1941-11-08 Sunday color
CelebSundays-120 1941-11-22 Sunday color
CelebSundays-121 1941-12-20 Sunday color
CelebSundays-122 1943-02-07 Sunday color
CelebSundays-123 1943-03-07 Sunday color
CelebSundays-124 1943-04-11 Sunday color
CelebSundays-125 1943-06-20 Sunday color
CelebSundays-126 1943-06-27 Sunday color
CelebSundays-127 1943-08-29 Sunday color
CelebSundays-128 1943-09-05 Sunday color
CelebSundays-129 1943-09-12 Sunday color
CelebSundays-130 1943-10-17 Sunday color
CelebSundays-131 1943-11-21 Sunday color
CelebSundays-132 1943-12-12 Sunday color
CelebSundays-133 1943-12-19 Sunday color
CelebSundays-134 1944-03-19 Sunday color
CelebSundays-135 1944-06-11 Sunday color
CelebSundays-136 1944-06-25 Sunday color
CelebSundays-160 Daily 1944, unfinished

Abrams ComicArts

  • Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration (August 2011): Craig Yoe, ed. (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-8109-9594-9 Includes more than a dozen (new and old) essays, and reproductions of non-strip art pertaining to Krazy Kat and Herriman's other works.
Pages of book with Krazy Kat strips:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
Art of GH-18 1941-08-10 Sunday
Art of GH-19 1937-02-14 Sunday
Art of GH-20 1938-05-15 Sunday
Art of GH-21 1938-12-11 Sunday
Art of GH-22 1940-10-06 Sunday
Art of GH-23 1941-05-11 Sunday
Art of GH-24 1941-12-21 Sunday
Art of GH-25 1942-12-27 Sunday
Art of GH-26 1943-09-26 Sunday
Art of GH-39 1922-01-21 Sunday color
Art of GH-42 1926-01-22 Daily orig
Art of GH-44a Daily 191x-?; Dingbats w/ KK under
Art of GH-44b 1939-09-30 Daily orig
Art of GH-46 1922-04-19 Daily orig, color
Art of GH-48a 1932-06-18 Daily orig
Art of GH-48b 1918-01-17 Daily
Art of GH-49 1939-07-06 Daily orig
Art of GH-52a 1943-04-03 Daily
Art of GH-52b 1939-11-17 Daily
Art of GH-53 1930-11-06 Daily
Art of GH-55 1916-12-03 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-56 1922-03-11 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-57 1916-07-02 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-58 1939-06-04 Sunday orig
Art of GH-59 1918-11-17 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-60 1939-06-25 Sunday orig
Art of GH-61 1917-02-11 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-62 1918-05-05 Sunday orig
Art of GH-63 1917-11-04 Sunday orig
Art of GH-64 1917-10-28 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-65 1936-07-25 Sunday orig
Art of GH-66 1919-05-18 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-67 1918-06-30 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-68 1922-04-16 Sunday
Art of GH-69 1932-12-25 Sunday orig
Art of GH-70 1932-05-01 Sunday orig
Art of GH-71 1938-06-05 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-72 1917-09-09 Sunday orig, color
Art of GH-73 1944-06-04 Sunday orig
Art of GH-74 Sunday unpublished, circa 25-30
Art of GH-117 Daily circa 1920; "wash-boila"
Art of GH-172 Daily 2 unfin, 1944

IDW Publishing

  • George Herriman's Krazy + Ignatz in Tiger Tea (January 2010): Craig Yoe, ed. Collects the "Tiger Tea" storyline from the daily strips, May 1936 – March 1937. ISBN 978-1-60010-645-3 (hardcover).
Contents of book:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
TT-Yoe-016 1924-10-26 Sunday Krazy's b'day
TT-Yoe-020 1927-03-13 Sunday surreal kats
TT-Yoe-025 1919-05-18 Sunday katnip field
TT-Yoe-029 1936-05-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-030 1936-05-16 Daily
TT-Yoe-031 1936-05-25 Daily
TT-Yoe-032 1936-05-26 Daily
TT-Yoe-033 1936-05-27 Daily
TT-Yoe-034 1936-05-28 Daily
TT-Yoe-035 1936-05-29 Daily
TT-Yoe-036 1936-05-30 Daily
TT-Yoe-037 1936-06-01 Daily
TT-Yoe-038 1936-06-02 Daily
TT-Yoe-039 1936-06-03 Daily
TT-Yoe-040 1936-06-04 Daily
TT-Yoe-041 1936-06-05 Daily
TT-Yoe-042 1936-06-06 Daily
TT-Yoe-043 1936-06-08 Daily
TT-Yoe-044 1936-06-09 Daily
TT-Yoe-045 1936-06-10 Daily
TT-Yoe-046 1936-06-11 Daily
TT-Yoe-047 1936-06-12 Daily
TT-Yoe-048 1936-06-13 Daily
TT-Yoe-049 1936-06-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-050 1936-06-16 Daily
TT-Yoe-051 1936-06-17 Daily
TT-Yoe-052 1936-06-18 Daily
TT-Yoe-053 1936-06-19 Daily
TT-Yoe-054 1936-06-20 Daily
TT-Yoe-055 1936-06-22 Daily
TT-Yoe-056 1936-06-23 Daily
TT-Yoe-057 1936-06-24 Daily
TT-Yoe-058 1936-06-25 Daily
TT-Yoe-059 1936-06-26 Daily
TT-Yoe-060 1936-06-27 Daily
TT-Yoe-061 1936-06-29 Daily
TT-Yoe-062 1936-06-30 Daily
TT-Yoe-063 1936-07-01 Daily
TT-Yoe-064 1936-07-02 Daily
TT-Yoe-065 1936-07-03 Daily
TT-Yoe-066 1936-07-04 Daily
TT-Yoe-067 1936-07-06 Daily
TT-Yoe-068 1936-07-07 Daily
TT-Yoe-069 1936-07-08 Daily
TT-Yoe-070 1936-07-09 Daily
TT-Yoe-071 1936-07-10 Daily
TT-Yoe-072 1936-07-11 Daily
TT-Yoe-073 1936-07-13 Daily
TT-Yoe-074 1936-07-14 Daily
TT-Yoe-075 1936-07-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-076 1936-07-16 Daily
TT-Yoe-077 1936-07-27 Daily
TT-Yoe-078 1936-07-28 Daily
TT-Yoe-079 1936-07-29 Daily
TT-Yoe-080 1936-08-19 Daily
TT-Yoe-081 1936-09-14 Daily
TT-Yoe-082 1936-09-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-083 1936-09-26 Daily
TT-Yoe-084 1936-12-14 Daily
TT-Yoe-085 1936-12-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-086 1936-12-16 Daily
TT-Yoe-087 1936-12-17 Daily
TT-Yoe-088 1936-12-18 Daily
TT-Yoe-089 1936-12-19 Daily
TT-Yoe-090 1936-12-21 Daily
TT-Yoe-091 1936-12-22 Daily
TT-Yoe-092 1936-12-23 Daily
TT-Yoe-093 1936-12-24 Daily
TT-Yoe-094 1936-12-25 Daily
TT-Yoe-095 1936-12-26 Daily
TT-Yoe-096 1937-02-22 Daily
TT-Yoe-097 1937-02-23 Daily
TT-Yoe-098 1937-02-24 Daily
TT-Yoe-099 1937-02-25 Daily
TT-Yoe-100 1937-02-26 Daily
TT-Yoe-101 1937-02-27 Daily
TT-Yoe-102 1937-03-01 Daily
TT-Yoe-103 1937-03-02 Daily
TT-Yoe-104 1937-03-03 Daily
TT-Yoe-105 1937-03-04 Daily
TT-Yoe-106 1937-03-05 Daily
TT-Yoe-107 1937-03-06 Daily
TT-Yoe-108 1937-03-08 Daily
TT-Yoe-109 1937-03-09 Daily
TT-Yoe-110 1937-03-10 Daily
TT-Yoe-111 1937-03-11 Daily
TT-Yoe-112 1937-03-12 Daily
TT-Yoe-113 1937-03-13 Daily
TT-Yoe-114 1937-03-15 Daily
TT-Yoe-115 1937-03-16 Daily ?date; TT & Katfish
TT-Yoe-116 1937-03-17 Daily ?date; TT vs Wolf Wine
TT-Yoe-117 1937-03-18 Daily ?date; TT vs Wolf Wine
TT-Yoe-118 1937-03-19 Daily ?date; TT & Katfish, Shark
TT-Yoe-119 1937-03-20 Daily ?date; TT vs Rat biscuit
TT-Yoe-121 1921-07-31 Sunday katnip
  • LOAC Essentials Presents King Features Volume 1: Krazy Kat 1934 By George Herriman (April 2016): Dean Mullaney, ed. Collects a years worth of daily strips, Dec 25, 1933 – Dec 31, 1934. ISBN 978-1-63140-408-5

2016 biography

  • Michael Tisserand's 2016 biography, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (Harper, hardcover, 560 pages, ISBN 978-0-0617-3299-7) is profusely illustrated with (mainly) single panels from Herriman's various comics. The table below lists only the panels from Krazy Kat, with dates from the book's captions.
Panels from Krazy Kat strips:
Page Date Daily/Sunday Notes
GH-B&W-ii Daily "reading?"
GH-B&W-vi Daily looking at reader
GH-B&W-009 1917-03-22 Daily
GH-B&W-017 1916-01-07 Daily
GH-B&W-024 1921-07-27 Daily
GH-B&W-028 1933-06-19 Daily 2 panels
GH-B&W-031 1938-12-02 Daily 2 panels
GH-B&W-036 1931-02-21 Daily 2 panels
GH-B&W-038 1941-05-04 Sunday
GH-B&W-039 1931-03-13 Daily 2 panels
GH-B&W-043 1921-05-19 Daily 2 panels
GH-B&W-046 1934-10-15 Daily
GH-B&W-049 1934-09-05 Daily
GH-B&W-050 1917-04-01 Daily
GH-B&W-051 1918-05-19 Daily
GH-B&W-053 1915-05-12 Sunday
GH-B&W-063 1931-03-25 Daily
GH-B&W-065 Daily "New Yorick"
GH-B&W-069 1933-12-25 Daily
GH-B&W-075 1920-05-02 Sunday
GH-B&W-087 1919-04-20 Sunday
GH-B&W-122 1917-06-09 Daily
GH-B&W-211 Daily "It thrills me"
GH-B&W-243 1913-11-01 Daily
GH-B&W-246 1916-11-25 Daily
GH-B&W-248 1914-10-31 Daily
GH-B&W-249 1916-12-22 Daily
GH-B&W-256 1915-10-26 Daily
GH-B&W-263 1916-02-18 Daily
GH-B&W-266 1916-04-23 Sunday
GH-B&W-270 1915-11-05 Daily
GH-B&W-271 1919-02-08 Daily
GH-B&W-274 1917-02-11 Sunday
GH-B&W-276 1918-01-08 Daily
GH-B&W-279 1917-07-17 Sunday
GH-B&W-282 1917-12-25 Daily
GH-B&W-285 1918-05-05 Sunday
GH-B&W-287 1919-11-23 Sunday
GH-B&W-288 1922-11-19 Sunday
GH-B&W-298 1915-07-31 Daily
GH-B&W-305 1921-07-31 Sunday
GH-B&W-306 1921-07-31 Sunday
GH-B&W-310 1922-04-16 Sunday
GH-B&W-316 1918-08-11 Sunday
GH-B&W-325 1921-03-18 Daily
GH-B&W-328 1921-08-18 Daily
GH-B&W-331 Daily K&I into ink well
GH-B&W-336 1917-11-18 Sunday
GH-B&W-341 1925-03-02 Daily
GH-B&W-343 1919-11-24 Daily
GH-B&W-344 1921-03-06 Sunday
GH-B&W-347 1927-12-16 Daily
GH-B&W-353 1927-03-02 Daily
GH-B&W-356 1916-10-16 Daily
GH-B&W-364 1931-06-19 Daily
GH-B&W-368 1932-08-30 Daily
GH-B&W-370 1932-04-03 Sunday
GH-B&W-375 1933-01-16 Daily
GH-B&W-383 1933-06-30 Daily
GH-B&W-388 1936-07-10 Daily
GH-B&W-394 1935-11-19 Daily
GH-B&W-395 1937-12-12 Sunday
GH-B&W-401 1940-02-11 Sunday
GH-B&W-407 1939-12-10 Sunday
GH-B&W-413 1942-08-30 Sunday
GH-B&W-416 1943-01-20 Daily
GH-B&W-418 1941-06-10 Daily
GH-B&W-429 1944-06-25 Sunday
GH-B&W-432a 1934-11-12 Daily
GH-B&W-432b 1936-12-12 Daily
GH-B&W-434 1934-06-23 Daily
GH-B&W-438 1932-07-31 Sunday
GH-B&W-439 Daily "I thenk you"

Taschen

Dover Publications

  • Krazy Kat Collection: Selected Sunday Strips 1918–1919 (January 2020)' ISBN 979-8321374771: Paperback; 112 pages.

Mathiesen collections

  • Cartoonist/writer Snorre Smári Mathiesen has edited and self-published a series of daily collections:
    • Krazy Kat - Dailies 1913-1914 ISBN 979-8321374771: Hardcover; 424 pages.
    • Krazy Kat - Dailies Nov 1913-Feb 1914 ISBN 978-1-9852-4306-4: Paperback; 60 pages.
    • Krazy Kat - Dailies Vol. 2: March–July 1914 ISBN 978-1-7235-6541-0: Paperback; 42 pages.
    • Krazy Kat: 1924 Daily Strips ISBN 979-8840214961: Original edition. Hardcover; 128 pages.
    • Krazy Kat: 1924 Daily Strips ISBN 979-8-8572-1643-9: Revised edition. Hardcover; 260 pages. Strips are printed larger than in earlier edition. The previous edition included various strips from June 1913 to March 1914, some of which had been included in the above collections. These strips are not mentioned in the introduction to the revised edition. From 1924, about 60 strips are missing.
    • Krazy Kat: 1925 Daily Strips ISBN 979-8-3559-6731-4: Hardcover; 212 pages. Missing Jun 18 and Dec 25.
    • Krazy Kat: 1926 Daily Strips ISBN 979-8-3748-3445-1: Hardcover; 312 pages. Missing Dec 1, 9, 25.
    • Krazy Kat: 1927 Daily Strips ISBN 979-8-3975-7183-8: Hardcover; 314 pages. Missing Jan 1 and Dec 26.

Filmography

Main article: Krazy Kat filmography

See also

Notes

  1. Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams, "The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics". pp. 59–60.
  2. Krazy & Ignatz, Volume 1, George Herriman, introduction by Bill Blackbeard, Stinging Monkey Publications, 2003
  3. ^ Kramer.
  4. ^ Shannon.
  5. ^ McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 26.
  6. Seldes, Gilbert. "The Krazy Kat That Walks By Himself Archived 2010-01-08 at the Wayback Machine". The Seven Lively Arts. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924, p. 231.
  7. ^ Humphrey, Aaron (2017-06-05). "The Cult of Krazy Kat: Memory and Recollection in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 7. doi:10.16995/cg.97. ISSN 2048-0792.
  8. Heer 41–45.
  9. A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night 71.
  10. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman 97.
  11. Schwartz 8–10.
  12. Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere, 47.
  13. There is a Heppy Lend, Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay-, 62.
  14. Crocker.
  15. Necromancy By the Blue Bean Bush, 16–17.
  16. A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K, 71.
  17. Schwartz 9.
  18. A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night 67, et al.
  19. McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 52.
  20. McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 58.
  21. Blackbeard 1–3.
  22. McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 66–67.
  23. Tisserand, Michael (2016). Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. Harper. p. 277.
  24. Tisserand, Michael (2016). Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. Harper. p. 113.
  25. Kammen, Michael (1996). The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. Oxford University Press. p. 93.
  26. Nash, Paul: 'American Comics, a Foreign Appraisal of the Masters of Humorous Pencils'. The Sun (New York City). August 19, 1931. Viewed February 27, 2023.
  27. A century ago, Krazy Kat was a comics-page masterpiece Archived 2023-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. November 13, 2016. Viewed March 10, 2023.
  28. Inge.
  29. ^ Bloom.
  30. Herriman, George (2005): Krazy & Ignatz: Komplete 1933-1934. Fantagraphics. p. 6. ISBN 1560976209
  31. Schwartz 9–10.
  32. ^ Crafton.
  33. Maltin 205–06.
  34. Winkler Productions: copyright synopsis for Web Feet (1927).
  35. Rail Rode.
  36. "Winkler Pictures Moves West" - The Film Daily (12/14/1931)
  37. Maltin 207.
  38. Maltin 210–11.
  39. Maltin 213.
  40. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 476–77. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  41. To Tell the Truth. February 3, 1964. 24 minutes in. CBS. My name is Penny Phillips and I'm the cartoon voice of Krazy Kat. Rebroadcast on Buzzr on February 16, 2019.
  42. Young, Frank M. (August 9, 2008). "from 'Krazy Kat' #4, 1952: soup's on!". Stanley Stories. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  43. "Dell Four Color Comics". Archived from the original on July 21, 2009.
  44. McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 55.
  45. McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 57.
  46. A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K, 1–3
  47. McDonnell/O'Connell/De Havenon 77.
  48. McDonnell, Patrick (1985). Krazy Kat. The Comic Art of George Herriman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. p. 76.
  49. ^ Tea (April 25, 2018). "Ask A Cartoonist: What We've Learned from Krazy Kat". Comics Kingdom. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
  50. Harvey, R. C. (Jan 2000). "Blood & Thunder: Two for Cho". The Comics Journal. No. 219. p. 3. ...the Ignatz Award was originated in the '70s at the Orlando Con, a pioneering comic convention staged mainly by Jim Ivey.
  51. Boyar, Jay (May 12, 1985). "The Real Don Martin: We All Grew Up On His Cartoons. Fortunately, So Did He". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2013-12-28. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  52. "About Don Addis". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on July 2, 2006. Retrieved Jan 4, 2013.
  53. ^ McElhatton, Greg (Jan 30, 2011). "Goodbye, Jeff". GregMcE.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
  54. MacDonald, Heidi (Jan 31, 2011). "RIP: Jeff Alexander". The Beat. Archived from the original on November 10, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
  55. "Kreem of the Komics!". Metro Times. Detroit. 2012-09-08. Archived from the original on Sep 8, 2012.
  56. McDonnell, Patrick. "Comic Masters". MuttsComics.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  57. Watterson, pp. 17–18.
  58. "Charles Schulz interview". Nemo. No. 31. Interviewed by Rick Marschall; Gary Groth. January 1992. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  59. "Interviews: Will Eisner". The Onion AV Club. Interviewed by Tasha Robinson. September 27, 2000. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  60. ^ Sanderson, Peter. "Comics in Context #20: This Belongs in a Museum". IGN. Archived from the original on Mar 9, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  61. "The D'log Interview for Artsnet: HUNT EMERSON". Artsnet. D'log. Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  62. "Rec.music.rem FAQ (#A15)". The R.E.M. - Usenet. Jan 5, 1997. Archived from the original on January 7, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  63. McEldowney, Brooke (January 22, 2019). "9 Chickweed Lane". GoComics.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  64. McEldowney, Brooke (January 23, 2019). "9 Chickweed Lane". GoComics.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  65. Tashlin.
  66. Exhibit catalog from the Musée de la bande dessinée in Angoulême, 1997, cited in BDM 2005–2006, by Bera, Denni and Mellot.
  67. There is a Heppy Lend, Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay-, 119.
  68. ^ Campbell, Peter. "Bibliography". Coconino County. Archived from the original on 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  69. "The Mouse Bibliography". Archived from the original on 2006-01-11. Retrieved 2006-01-14.
  70. Re-readings, Volume III (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2018), pages 87-95 and coda; Re-readings, Volume IV (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2019), coda; Re-readings, Volume V (edited by Ross E. Davies) (Green Bag Press 2020), coda.
  71. A Brick Comes A-Flying Archived 2019-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Taschen. Retrieved 2019-08-10
  72. "Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist?". hyperallergic.com. 10 August 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2019-12-11.

References

  • Blackbeard, Bill. "A Kat of Many Kolors: Jazz pantomime and the funny papers in 1922". (1991). Printed in A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K (q.v.)
  • Bloom, John. "Krazy Kat keeps kracking". United Press International, June 23, 2003.
  • Crafton, Donald (1993). Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898–1928. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-11667-0.
  • Crocker, Elisabeth. "'To He, I Am For Evva True Archived 2006-03-26 at the Wayback Machine': Krazy Kat's Indeterminate Gender". Postmodern Culture, January 1995. January 12, 2006.
  • Heer, Jeet. "Cartoonists in Navajo Country". Comic Art, Summer 2006. 40–47.
  • Herriman, George (1990). Pilgrims on the Road to Nowhere. Forestville: Turtle Island, Eclipse Books. ISBN 1-56060-024-1.
  • Herriman, George (1991). A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K. Forestville: Turtle Island/Eclipse Books. ISBN 1-56060-064-0.
  • Herriman, George (2002). Krazy & Ignatz 1925–1926: "There Is A Heppy Land, Fur, Far Awa-a-ay -". Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1-56097-386-2.
  • Herriman, George (2003). Krazy & Ignatz 1929–1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night". Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1-56097-529-6.
  • Herriman, George (2004). Krazy & Ignatz 1933–1934: "Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush". Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1-56097-620-9.
  • Inge, Thomas (1990). "Krazy Kat as American Dada Art" Comics as Culture, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 0-87805-408-1.
  • Kramer, Hilton. Untitled review of Herriman art exhibition. The New York Times, January 17, 1982.
  • Maltin, Leonard (1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.
  • McDonnell, Patrick; O'Connell, Karen; de Havenon, Georgia Riley (1986) Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-2313-0.
  • Schwartz, Ben (2003). "Hearst, Herriman, and the Death of Nonsense". Printed in Krazy & Ignatz 1929–1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night". (q.v.)
  • Shannon, Edward A. "'That we may mis-unda-stend each udda': The Rhetoric of Krazy Kat". Journal of Popular Culture, Fall 1995, vol. 29, issue 2.
  • Tashlin, Frank. "In Coconino County". The New York Times, November 3, 1946, p. 161.
  • Watterson, Bill (1995). The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel. ISBN 0-8362-0438-7

Further reading

  • Kish, Frances. "Watch 'Em Move: A Short Biography of Krazy Kat and Some of His Goofy Friends", Photoplay, September 1930, p. 71. Article on animation.

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