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Birth
1880 (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Death
1944 (Hollywood, California)
Lived/Active
California/New York
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cartoonist, illustration, genre painting
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Black American Artists
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| Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat in the early 1920s, drew a dozen or more other strips, and illustrated the Archy and Mehitabel books. The Gumps appeared in nearly 300 papers, Bringing Up Father had 500, and Blondie exceeded 1,000 during the years that Krazy Kat appeared. The Kat an (showing 500 of 8696 characters). |
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