George Herriman
Krazy Kat (1939)
Distributed by the King Features Syndicate
As a cartoonist, I read ‘Krazy Kat’ with awe and wonder. ‘Krazy Kat’ is such a pure and completely realized personal vision that the strip’s inner mechanism is ultimately as unknowable as George Herriman. Nevertheless, I marvel at how this fanciful world could be so forcefully imagined and brought to paper with such immediacy. This is how good a comic strip can be.
—Bill Watterson, in The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat, 1990