14 Facts About Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is an American newspaper comic strip, by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944.

The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat.

Krazy Kat takes place in a heavily stylized version of Coconino County, Arizona, with Herriman filling the page with caricatured flora and fauna, and rock formation landscapes typical of the Painted Desert.

Krazy Kat's dialogue is a highly stylized argot phonetically evoking a mixture of English, French, Spanish, Yiddish and other dialects, often identified as George Herriman's own native New Orleans dialect, Yat.

On those occasions when Ignatz is caught before he can launch his brick, Krazy Kat is left pining for the "l'il ainjil" and wonders where the beloved mouse has gone.

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Krazy Kat appears slightly less frequently than Krazy and Ignatz.

Krazy Kat is the main character of his own short film series.

Krazy Kat evolved from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, The Dingbat Family, which started in June 1910 and was later renamed The Family Upstairs.

Mintz's Krazy Kat was, like many other early 1930s cartoon characters, imitative of Mickey Mouse, and usually engaged in slapstick comic adventures with his look-alike girlfriend and loyal pet dog.

Krazy Kat is male in this version of the strip while Ignatz is female.

In 2004, a picture of Krazy Kat appears on the wall of the Goofy Goober bar in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie alongside a picture of Popeye.

Krazy Kat has continued to inspire artists and cartoonists to the present day.

The first Krazy Kat collection, published by Henry Holt and Company in 1946, just two years after Herriman's death, gathered 200 selected strips.

Krazy Kat is featured in the Universal Studios Florida theme park Islands of Adventure, where Ignatz is seen throwing down a brick on Krazy's head in Toon Lagoon.