Krazy Kat #2

George Herriman's beloved newspaper strip gets a handsome French-language collection from Les Rêveurs, gathering strips from 1930 to 1934 in this second volume. The cover perfectly captures the strip's gentle absurdist rhythm: Ignatz Mouse scrambles frantically across a spare blue landscape while Krazy Kat reclines at ease, seemingly unbothered, as a brick tumbles through the air between them — all set against Herriman's characteristically spare, moody desert canyon backdrop. If you have any affection for early American comics at their most poetic and playful, this beautifully produced hardcover is a genuine pleasure to hold and read.