Krazy & Ignatz

From 2002 to 2012, Fantagraphics collected George Herriman's landmark newspaper strip Krazy Kat in a series of handsome hardcover volumes, each titled Krazy & Ignatz. Spanning the strip's classic 1920s and 1930s heyday, these thirteen books brought Herriman's surreal, poetic, and visually inventive masterpiece—centered on the eternal, unrequited love of a moonstruck cat for a brick-throwing mouse—to a new generation of readers. The series is essential for preserving and presenting Herriman's singular, dreamlike artwork and playful language in a format that honors the strip's original Sunday page layouts.