{"id":51022,"date":"2016-12-30T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51022"},"modified":"2017-01-02T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T18:05:44","slug":"still-krazy-after-all-these-years-a-life-of-george-herriman-pioneering-comic-writer-and-n-o-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51022","title":{"rendered":"Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Orleans Advocate<\/a>
\n2016-12-05<\/p>\n

Susan Larson<\/strong><\/a>, Host, The Reading Life<\/em>
\nWWNO-FM, New Orleans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGeorge Herriman<\/a>, from Michael Tisserand’s<\/a> Krazy Kat<\/em> bio of George Herriman<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For Michael Tisserand<\/a>, as for most of us, the love of comics came early in childhood.<\/p>\n

His mother took him to the library, where he discovered 741.59, the beloved Dewey Decimal System<\/a> classification where comics were shelved. Years later, during his post-Katrina<\/a> exile in Chicago<\/a>, Tisserand would take his own young son to an exhibit of comics at the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was carrying my son in my arms then \u2014 he\u2019s 6′-4″ now \u2014 and reading the captions out loud. I was feeling the New Orleans<\/a> exile at that point, and I could imagine the way Herriman<\/a> felt as a 10 year-old in Los Angeles<\/a>, and I was looking for a New Orleans story. This was a story about New Orleans that I could tell from Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, years after chasing the story across the country, Tisserand has produced the first full-length biography of a great New Orleans character and an original American artist in \u201cKrazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White<\/a>\u201d (HarperCollins, $35).<\/p>\n

Herriman (1880-1944) was born in New Orleans to a Creole<\/a> family, free people of color who moved to California<\/a> in search of better educational opportunities. There, Herriman began to pass as white<\/a>, which he did for the rest of his life…<\/p>\n

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

Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,369,8,6462,20],"tags":[9929,9930,25524,1438,25907,14655,25906],"class_list":["post-51022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-george-herriman","tag-krazy-kat","tag-michael-tisserand","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-advocate","tag-susan-larson","tag-the-new-orleans-advocate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51022","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=51022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51023,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51022\/revisions\/51023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}