This week's featured artist reaches back into the day when the comics spanned entire pages of newspaper instead of the small columns or strips they are today. One of these pioneers is George Herriman. Mr. Herriman is the mind behind one of the most lauded strips, Krazy Kat. Essentially, a surreal trip through Herriman's social commentary, Krazy Kat is an atypical cat-mouse-dog story masked beneath a strange love triangle of sorts. His characters were quite iconic in look, and the vast desert setting made the story all the more surreal. Bricks aplenty were thrown, syntax and grammar thrown out the window, and androgyny ruled the day. The absurdity of it all underlined Mr. Herriman's commentary as being allegorical in nature. For a more in depth look, read this look inside the mind of Herriman. Either that, or take a look at this image to get an idea of what Krazy Kat is all about.
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