Here's the latest addtion to Fantagraphics' ongoing George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz, 1928-1930. It's another massive – 3 1/2 pounds – oversize – 11 1/2" x 14" – hardcover – this time, embossed – volume. It collects the entirety of the Krazuy Kat Sunday pages from 1928, 19290 & 1930 – thus, covering that pivotal era that marked the end of The Jazz Age and the beginning of The Great Depression – runs 228 pages almost entirely in black & white – as befits the work – but with a smattering of color where the work requires it. It is also chock-a-block with informative essays from Bill Blackbeard and other Herriman scholars.
And we can't resist tossing in this quote from the Fantagraphics' website, as we wholeheartedly agree:
"One could argue the claim — confidently, persuasively, and with an all-but-inexhaustible store of ever-fresh evidence — that George Herriman was one of the very great artists, in any medium, of the 20th century." — Michael Chabon