A couple of Arf Lovers wrote asking more about what’s in our Krazy Kat living room. Someday I’ll take pics for the blog. It’s all painted in George Herriman colors and has Herriman-esque pillows and rugs. There’s a nice brick on the coffee table. And there’s eight pieces of original Herriman art on the walls. Above the mantle is the biggest original, some would say the best, this Sunday:

(click to read the comic)

What’s cool about that April 16th, 1922 strip is that it is a very surreal self-referential story about Krazy Kat reading the comics. It’s reproduced in the next Arf book, Arf Forum. That Arf volume has a special cover feature on “reading comics”. There’s photos of celebs from movies (like Boris Karloff), music (like Elvis) and comics (like Ernie Bushmiller, thanks to James Carlsson) reading comics. And they’ll be strips of comic strip characters reading comics–like in this Sunday Krazy Kat!

BTW, I’m getting my advanced copy of Arf Forum today. Kim Thompson informs me that it looks “SWEET!”. I’ve been having schtuff published for 42 years, since I was 12 years old when I did fanzine-type publications. When I actually hold the finished piece in my hands it’s still a giant, giant kick for me!

Anyway, here’s a detail of another original in the Krazy Kollection. It’s the original that served as a basis for the first Krazy Kat statue we did that I talked about yesterday. What do you think?