It’s been the thrill of a lifetime that YOE! Studio has sculpted Krazy Kat not once, not twice but three times for Dark Horse (thanks to David Scroggy and Mike Richardson!). The first sculpt got a letter of criticism from a well-meaning fan who said it was wrong. “Herriman never showed Krazy baring his teeth”. I sent Dark Horse a scan of the original art in my living room that I took the pose from and the matter was laid to rest. The sculpt, the first one in the Classic Comics Series of about 75 “Syrocco Style” (i.e. old cereal box premiums) sculpts we’ve done retailed in 2000 for 35 bucks. But it has now been known to go for 650 dollars on eBay.

The statue below was a “bendy”. I didn’t mind the weird porportions we had to work with at all. I found them charming. But I wasn’t happy at all with the painting the Orient did. I took the bendy Krazy and roughed him/her up with sand-paper and am now satisfied with the results. It sits on the mantle of the fireplace in my Krazy Kat living room.

This is a Christmas ornament. I was kind of arrogant to create my own tableau/statement by coming up with my own “artist/model” scenerio (Herriman forgive me!), but people seemed to like the results.

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This is the famed Knickerbocker doll, it’s from the Diamond website and said to be from the 1930s. But, maybe it was first manufactured a lot earlier than that.

This famous photo that historian Rick Marschall turned up shows a young fan (Herriman’s daughter?) holding the beauty while watching George sketch away.

But, I’m excited to have just discovered this Hollywood publicity photo. It’s got Ben Alexander in a Buster Brown outfit holding a Krazy Kat doll in a 1918 movie “The Better Wife”. The wife/mom is Clara Kimball Young whose specialty was apparently playing wronged wives. The man, I’m assuming husband, is actor Nigel Barrie. I WANT that doll-kool, huh?

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