Krazy Kat & Ignatz, The George Herriman Library: 1928-1930

By George Herriman. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover, 228 pages, B&W and Colour, 1928-1930 (2025 printing)

This exquisite, generously sized volume finishes up the 1920s collecting the acclaimed and groundbreaking Krazy Kat Sunday strips in an archival hardcover edition.

2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards WINNER Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

In this volume: What profound insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? What's with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum Bill Bee take him? These are just some of the questions that are beside the point in this collection of the hauntingly surreal, yet amazingly tender/violent adventures of Krazy Kat, Ignatz, and Offisa Pup.

With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be "the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century."

"One could argue the claim — confidently, persuasively, and with an all-but-inexhaustible store of ever-fresh evidence — that George Herriman was one of the very great artists, in any medium, of the 20th century." — Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

"Does the strip deserve its reputation? Frankly, yes." — The London Observer

"New to KK? It's the cheeky story of (head-) achingly unrequited love." — The Awesomer