Ebook {Epub PDF} Krazy: The Black and White World of George Herriman by Michael Tisserand

Krazy is a monumental work of biography about a true American genius.”. “Tisserand has dug deep in the archives and examined George Herriman’s work with ingenuity and insight, emerging with a riveting narrative that wears its impressive scholarship with lightness and grace.”. In this Eisner Award–winning biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman, the man behind one of the greatest comic strips in history finally gets his due. Michael Tisserand celebrates Herriman’s wondrous comics while delving deep into the life of a cartoonist on America’s color line/5(93).  · By Nelson George. Jan. 12, KRAZY. George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. By Michael Tisserand. Illustrated. pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $ In our superficially more Author: Nelson George.

Author Michael Tisserand has recently published Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, a biography of the New Orleans-born cartoonist. Herriman's family eventually moved to Los Angeles, and he began to draw the earlyth-century comic strip "Krazy Kat" about the adventures of a carefree, color-changing cat and a mouse pal. Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White - Kindle edition by Tisserand, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. We've been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand's comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini bltadwin.ruand presented a slideshow on the book for the first time, and it will be presented again on Thursday at Princeton's Labyrinth Books with Patrick "Mutts" McDonnell.

Krazy Kat Sunday page 15 March Michael Tisserand’s long-awaited, magisterial biography of Herriman, Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, cogently points us in a compelling direction, however, by framing the art in. KRAZY: GEORGE HERRIMAN, A LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE by Michael Tisserand is an impressive achievement. The author takes us back to late 19th Century New Orleans, a stew of races and cultures that might be better understood today as more "pressure cooker" than "melting pot.". In early December , HarperCollins will release Tisserand's long-awaited book, Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. The book, over pages in length, offers the first detailed biography of the man many regard as the greatest cartoonist of the twentieth century.