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., ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...