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My Interests in Krazy Kat & Little Nemo

There is a lot of old comic strips out there that I have read over the years, so it came to my surprise that something such as "Little Nemo" was created had exceeded my expectations of people's creativity and mindset in creating stories. Winsor McCay's ideas of fantasy for this comic strip is without a doubt extraordinary in its own way. This to me a is a rare find and it was made in the early 1900s? I cannot believe I neglected to see that people's imagination were beyond even my understanding back then. Little Nemo’s constant world of dreams varies every night, the phrase the calm before the storm definitely applies to each and every one of his stories which I think was a clever way of creating it. His construct of the comic itself is unique in every way from the colors, panels, to the pace and timing, making me kind of wish this comic was still going.
“Krazy Kat” created by George Herriman, introduces the opposite of what many of us interpret the relationship between certain animals such as that dogs do not like cats and cats do not like mouses. Instead presented in these comic strips is that main character Krazy Kat that is a black cat has an appreciation for a white mouse named Ignatz who instead shows his hate by throwing bricks at him frequently. The police-officer dog named Offisa Pup in this story actually cares for Krazy Kat and watches him in case he gets into any trouble with Ignatz. Now I am only putting out the detail of this story because George Herriman took a different approach to how animals saw each other in a different light. Of course dogs and cats and mouses can live in peace, but this was the early 1910s, it was unusual but enough to make me want to read it more to get a better understanding. I am not sure why people disagreed with the comic strip, but I personally thought it was though exaggerated in hate from the mouse, it was genuinely enjoyable and interesting, especially the animations.

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