KRAZY KAT was the headliner of a comic strip - a long lyric delirium of love - that ran each day for thirty years in William Randolph Hearst's many newspapers. Against the desert backgrounds of Coconino County, a landscape that changed from moment to moment - mesas turning into trees into tumbleweeds - Krazy, too, transformed, being somedays he-cat, sometimes she. What didn't change was the plot: Daily & Sundays Krazy sang her aria of love and longing for IGNATZ MOUSE. And endlessly clever Ignatz, as if he spurned and despised the adoring Kat, spitefully delighted in hurling bricks at Krazy's bren. In her imagination - through Krazy alchemy - the brick-bruises bloomed as bouquets, proof to her of mousie's love. Lawman OFISSA BULL PUP, the Kat's steadfast admirer, arrested the abusive Mouse and marched him to the click. From which Ignatz escaped next morning to give our Kat her daily brick.
