Afterword to Krazy: George Herriman's Krazy Kat cartoon and its appeal to E. E. Cummings.
George Herriman's "Krazy Kat," a linguistically innovative and trenchant comic strip that appeared in newspapers from 1916-1944, attracted the attention of our major American poet, e. e. cummings, who wrote a foreword to a collection of the strips and admired it for its transcendent celebration of love over egoism in a triadic relationship, its scorn of politics, and its brick-throwing irreverence. Similarities between Cummings's and Herriman's work include language play, humorous voices, examinations of dimensions of empathy and theory of mind, musicality, and humanistic religiosity.
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.
David V
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Forrest
D004645:Empathy; D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic / Q000266:history*