George Herriman
Krazy Kat
King Features Syndicate, 1939
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