The connection from Krazy Kat to Mr Miracle
Nov 17, 2018 11:35:32 GMT -5
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Post by mrbrklyn on Nov 17, 2018 11:35:32 GMT -5
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I wrote this a while ago and it has a permanent home on my web server, so I hope you don't mind me posting it here. It is a retrospective of how the styles and storytelling techniques invented in Krazy Kat by Herriman continues to shape comic story telling today, even is dramatically different genres.
From Krazy Katz to Mister Miracle
How George Herriman's genious reverberates in comics until today
By summer of 1912, when George Herriman introduced Krazy Kat and Ingraz Mouse as a doodle on long forgotten strip called "The Dingbat Family", the comic business and artform was already a mature media that, that along with the newsprint revolution, allowed the comics to reach unprecedented market penetration of the public. Cartoonist where not just famous in the era before the movies had taken hold, before the radio, and when vaudeville was the only common entertainment available, but they were becoming wealthy and in high demand. At this point, the creative juices of these artists was put on full display and they were given a wide berth to experiment, each news paper syndication looking for the next major hit. The craze became so intoxicating that the publishers themselves started to get into the action, often willing to give space to scripts that might not be the most popular, if the publisher themselves found themselves affectionate for a script. Comics were becoming a serious art form, and not everyone noticed.
I wrote this a while ago and it has a permanent home on my web server, so I hope you don't mind me posting it here. It is a retrospective of how the styles and storytelling techniques invented in Krazy Kat by Herriman continues to shape comic story telling today, even is dramatically different genres.
From Krazy Katz to Mister Miracle
How George Herriman's genious reverberates in comics until today
By summer of 1912, when George Herriman introduced Krazy Kat and Ingraz Mouse as a doodle on long forgotten strip called "The Dingbat Family", the comic business and artform was already a mature media that, that along with the newsprint revolution, allowed the comics to reach unprecedented market penetration of the public. Cartoonist where not just famous in the era before the movies had taken hold, before the radio, and when vaudeville was the only common entertainment available, but they were becoming wealthy and in high demand. At this point, the creative juices of these artists was put on full display and they were given a wide berth to experiment, each news paper syndication looking for the next major hit. The craze became so intoxicating that the publishers themselves started to get into the action, often willing to give space to scripts that might not be the most popular, if the publisher themselves found themselves affectionate for a script. Comics were becoming a serious art form, and not everyone noticed.
