{"id":50730,"date":"2016-12-17T20:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50730"},"modified":"2017-01-16T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:32:15","slug":"a-comics-secret-southern-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50730","title":{"rendered":"A Comic\u2019s Secret Southern Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Comic\u2019s Secret Southern Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Below The Line<\/a>
\nGarden & Gun<\/a>
\n2016-12-13<\/p>\n

CJ Lotz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA panel from “Krazy\u00a0Kat<\/a>.” Courtesy Krazy<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Before \u201cThe Far Side<\/a>,\u201d \u201cCalvin and Hobbes<\/a>,\u201d or even Mickey Mouse<\/a>, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called \u201cKrazy Kat<\/a>\u201d ran in newspapers across the country and counted \u201cPeanuts<\/a>\u201d creator Charles Schulz<\/a> and the poet E.E. Cummings<\/a> among its fans. The strip featured beautiful backgrounds and simply sketched cat and mouse characters that switched between philosophical dialog and slapstick situations\u2014the mouse was forever trying to hit the cat with a brick. But the New Orleans<\/a>-born artist behind the drawings, George Herriman<\/a>, was a private man whose life was a mystery. That is until now, with the release of the illustrator\u2019s biography,\u00a0Krazy: George\u00a0Herriman, a Life in Black and White<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Author Michael Tisserand<\/a> (also a New Orleanian) spent ten years researching this thorough work that chronicles not only the career of the twentieth century Southern artist, but Herriman\u2019s big secret: He was born to a prominent Creole<\/a> family in New Orleans and spent his adult years \u201cpassing\u201d for white<\/a> at the newspapers where he worked in New York<\/a> and Los Angeles<\/a>. At the time, living as a black man would have threatened his livelihood, his home, and his relationships. We spoke with Tisserand about Herriman\u2019s complicated story and what it means to honor the artist\u2019s legacy today…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Comic\u2019s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy\u00a0Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before \u201cThe Far Side,\u201d \u201cCalvin and Hobbes,\u201d or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called \u201cKrazy Kat\u201d ran in newspapers across the country and counted \u201cPeanuts\u201d creator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,13743,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[25775,25776,9929,9930,25524],"class_list":["post-50730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-interviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-cj-lotz","tag-garden-gun","tag-george-herriman","tag-krazy-kat","tag-michael-tisserand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50731,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50730\/revisions\/50731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}