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.
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David V
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Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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*