biography
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| lived:
| (1881–1944)
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| biography:
| Cartoonist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A fall prevented him from continuing as a house painter, and he turned to drawing cartoons. His first strip was Lariat Pete, appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle (1903). Becoming a sports cartoonist on the New York Journal (1904), he launched a daily strip, Baron Mooch (1907), replacing it with The Dingbat Family in 1910. The family cat, lurking in bottom corners, eventually evolved into Krazy Kat (1910), whose painful unrequited love for Ignatz mouse was featured for more than 30 years in Hearst's newspapers. Intellectually acclaimed, the strip remained Herriman's work, and died with him. |
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