Biography
George Joseph Herriman III (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. Gilbert Seldes' article "The Krazy Kat Who Walks by Himself" was the earliest example of a critic from the high arts giving serious attention to a comic strip. The Comics Journal placed the strip first on its list of the greatest comics of the 20th century. Herriman's work has been a primary influence on cartoonists such as Elzie C. Segar, Will Eisner, Charles M. Schulz, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Bill Watterson, and Chris Ware.
Herriman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to mixed-race Creole parents, and grew up in Los Angeles. After he graduated from high school in 1897, he worked in the newspaper industry as an illustrator and engraver. He moved on to cartooning and comic strips—a medium then in its infancy—and drew a variety of strips until he introduced his most famous character, Krazy Kat, in his strip The Dingbat Family in 1910. A Krazy Kat daily strip began in 1913, and from 1916 the strip also appeared on Sundays. It was noted for its poetic, dialect-heavy dialogue; its fantastic, shifting backgrounds; and its bold, experimental page layouts.
In the strip's main motif and dynamic, Ignatz Mouse pelted Krazy with bricks, which the naïve, androgynous Kat interpreted as symbols of love. As the strip progressed, a love triangle developed between Krazy, Ignatz, and Offisa Pupp. Pupp made it his mission to prevent Ignatz from throwing bricks at Krazy, or to jail him for having done so, but his efforts were perpetually impeded because Krazy wished to be struck by Ignatz's bricks.
Herriman lived most of his life in Los Angeles, but made frequent trips to the Navajo deserts in the Southwestern United States. He was drawn to the landscapes of Monument Valley and the Enchanted Mesa, and made Coconino County the location of his Krazy Kat strips. His artwork made much use of Navajo and Mexican themes and motifs against shifting desert backgrounds. He was a prolific cartoonist who produced a large number of strips and illustrated Don Marquis's books of poetry about Archy and Mehitabel, an alley cat and a cockroach. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was a proponent of Herriman and gave him a lifetime contract with King Features Syndicate, which guaranteed Herriman a comfortable living and an outlet for his work despite its lack of popularity.
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Filmography
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Mouse Blanche (1962)
Keeping Up with Krazy (1962)
The Mouse Exterminator (1940)
The Little Lost Sheep (1939)
Krazy's Shoe Shop (1939)
Golf Chumps (1939)
Krazy's Bear Tale (1939)
The Lone Mountie (1938)
Hot Dogs On Ice (1938)
Gym Jams (1938)
Krazy's Travel Squawks (1938)
Krazy Magic (1938)
Little Buckaroo (1938)
The Auto Clinic (1938)
Sad Little Guinea Pigs (1938)
Railroad Rhythm (1937)
The Masque Raid (1937)
Krazy's Race of Time (1937)
The Lyin' Hunter (1937)
The Merry Cafe (1936)
Krazy's Newsreel (1936)
Highway Snobbery (1936)
Lil' Ainjil (1936)
Kannibal Kapers (1935)
A Happy Family (1935)
Garden Gaieties (1935)
The King's Jester (1935)
The Peace Conference (1935)
The Hot Cha Melody (1935)
The Bird Man (1935)
Goofy Gondolas (1934)
Krazy's Waterloo (1934)
Katnips of 1940 (1934)
The Trapeze Artist (1934)
Masquerade Party (1934)
Busy Bus (1934)
Bowery Daze (1934)
Cinder Alley (1934)
Tom Thumb (1934)
Southern Exposure (1934)
The Curio Shop (1933)
The Bill Poster (1933)
Stage Krazy (1933)
Krazy Spooks (1933)
Whacks Museum (1933)
Out of the Ether (1933)
Antique Antics (1933)
House Cleaning (1933)
Russian Dressing (1933)
The Broadway Malady (1933)
Bunnies And Bonnets (1933)
Wooden Shoes (1933)
The Medicine Show (1933)
Wedding Bells (1933)
Snow Time (1932)
The Minstrel Show (1932)
The Crystal Gazebo (1932)
Prosperity Blues (1932)
Seeing Stars (1932)
Light House Keeping (1932)
Light House Keeping (1932)
Paper Hanger (1932)
Hic-Cups The Champ (1932)
Ritzy Hotel (1932)
Birth of Jazz (1932)
Soldier Old Man (1932)
What a Knight (1932)
Hollywood Goes Krazy (1932)
Love Krazy (1932)
Piano Mover (1932)
The Restless Sax (1931)
Hash House Blues (1931)
Bars and Stripes (1931)
Weenie Roast (1931)
Svengarlic (1931)
The Stork Market (1931)
Soda Poppa (1931)
Disarmament Conference (1931)
Swiss Movements (1931)
Rodeo Dough (1931)
Taken for a Ride (1931)
The Little Trail (1930)
Lambs Will Gamble (1930)
The Apache Kid (1930)
The Bandmaster (1930)
Honolulu Wiles (1930)
Jazz Rhythm (1930)
Alaskan Knights (1930)
An Old Flame (1930)
Desert Sunk (1930)
Slow Beau (1930)
Spookeasy (1930)
Farm Relief (1929)
Port Whines (1929)
Ratskin (1929)
Sleepy Holler (1929)
How to Handle Women (1928)
Stork Exchange (1927)
Milk Made (1927)
For Crime's Sake (1927)
Rail Rode (1927)
Don Go On (1927)
Hire a Hall (1927)
Stomach Trouble (1927)
Scents and Nonsense (1926)
Bokays and Brickbatz (1925)
The New Champ (1925)
Searching for Santa! (1925)
The Wireless Wire-Walkers (1921)
The Awful Spook (1921)
A Family Affair (1920)
The Chinese Honeymoon (1920)
Kats Is Kats (1920)
The Best Mouse Loses (1920)
Love's Labor Lost (1920)
The Great Cheese Robbery (1920)
Krazy Kat Takes Little Katrina for an Airing (1916)
A Grid-Iron Hero (1916)
A Tale That Is Knot (1916)
Krazy Kat Invalid (1916)
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus (1916)
Krazy Kat, Bugologist (1916)
One-Act Tragedy (1916)
A Duet (1916)
Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916)
Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G' (1916)
Introducing Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse (1916)
The Missing One
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GenderMale
Birthday1880-08-22
Deathday1944-04-25 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceNew Orleans, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City · New Orleans · Los Angeles, United States of America
Also Known AsGeo. Herriman, E.H. Harriman, George Harriman, George Herriman III
AwardsWill Eisner Hall of Fame
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