Dreamers Rise

Lafcadio Hearn: She could swim like a Tahitian, and before daybreak on sultry summer mornings often stole down to the river to strike out...

Cartoonist Chris Ware, in the New York Review of Books , on Krazy Kat's banjo: I may be in the minority here, but I really think that...

From George Herriman's Krazy Kat, April 23, 1921. Click to enlarge the full strip below. Source: the Comic Strip Library .

I'm not sure of the origin of this panel, which I found on Tumblr with no further credit given. Herriman sprinkled a fair amount of Span...

I dust off this piece, which I wrote more than fifteen years ago, in celebration of Michael Tisserand's splendid new biography, Krazy:...