Sons in the next two generations married women of mixed race; George Joseph Herriman was born in 1880. The future cartoonist spent the first 10 years of his life in New Orleans. His family members ...

George Joseph Herriman was born in 1880 in New Orleans but grew up in a neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles near Washington Boulevard and Main Street. His father, George Herriman Sr., ...

Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” doesn’t bury its lead. Tisserand begins his deeply researched and brilliantly written book by sharing what was once ...

George Joseph Herriman was a black man born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles. For their own reasons the Herrimans has obscured their identity and ‘passed’ for white.” Skin colour was ...

New Orleans-born Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman (Photo by Will Connell, courtesy Michael Tisserand) "Krazy: A Life in Black and White," the biography of Crescent City-born newspaper ...

George Joseph Herriman III (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an ...

“Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White,” by Michael Tisserand, skillfully returns context to “Krazy Kat,” revealing that it could have come from no other time or place than ...

Creator George Herriman had a vision when he created the series, and he would go down as one of the most popular comic strip ...