From the exhibition
Krazy Kat Sunday Strip
· May 31, 1925
George Herriman's *Krazy Kat* pioneered the visual vocabulary of modern comics. Here, characters inhabit Coconino County's dreamlike desert landscape through economical line work and spatial composition across four panels. Speech balloons advance plot and personality; recurring characters—the obsessive Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Officer Pupp—generate humor from their fixed relationships. Herriman's strip ran daily and Sunday from 1913 to 1944, establishing the newspaper comic as a distinct art form built on panel sequence, lettering integration, and character continuity. The strip's formal innovations directly shaped how comic books would structure narrative through visual grammar.
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