Hearst did occasionally work with or pitch ideas to cartoonists, most notably his continued support of George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

Following Herriman's death, the strip was discontinued, unlike most popular strips which were continued by other cartoonists after their creators ' deaths.

This was followed in the Examiner on 20 December by the short-lived Mary's Home from College, a precursor to the " girl strips " such as Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals and John Held Jr .' s Merely Margie ; and on 23 December with Gooseberry Sprigg, about a cigar-smoking " Duck Duke ", acharacter who had previously, and popularly, appeared in Herriman's sports cartoons.

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's ( and Lower Slobbovia's ) distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

One of Herriman's habits was replacing hard C with K, as in the strip's title ; however, he rarely altered the spelling of Coconino itself, as Gonick does.

Herriman realized his $ 750-per-week salary from Hearst's King Features Syndicate was far more than the revenue the strip could be generating, but Hearst refused Herriman's offer to take a pay cut.

He said that, although Hearst himself championed the strip, the " lowbrow " type of reader his papers attracted were unlikely to appreciate Herriman's style of work.

On June 25, 1944, two months after Herriman's death, the last of his completed Krazy Kat strips, a full-page Sunday, was printed.

His mixed-race heritage was made known in 1971 when sociologist Arthur Asa Berger discovered that Herriman's race was listed by the New Orleans Board of Health as " colored ", and that the 1880 census listed his parents as " mulatto ".

Coconino County was the setting for George Herriman's early-20th-century Krazy Kat comic strip.

Another of Herriman's obsessive characters, the Major traveled the world in an unsuccessful search for the purest air, spouting poetic dialogue along the way.

Herriman's had a short lived continuing character comic strip in February and March about domestic life called Home Sweet Home, and began illustrating a series of articles called Bubblespikers written by Walter Murphy that spring.

Daniel and Pansy was Herriman's first strip to feature an all-animal cast.

The strip's characters, relations and situations grew organically and undeliberately as the strip went on, encouraged by Herriman's officemates.

Herriman's ethnic heritage was unknown to his colleagues.

In 1921, composer John Alden Carpenter, long an admirer of Herriman's, approached the cartoonist to collaborate on a Krazy Kat ballet.

These American comics included George McManus ' Bringing up Father, George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Rudolph Dirks's Katzenjammer Kids.

Inge notes the 1971 San Francisco Chronicle report that Herriman's birth certificate stated he was " colored " and considers the relevance of this fact to Herriman's life and art.

Temptation, ' which was visually inspired by George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Johnny Hart's B. C., had run in Escape, and found a home in Deadline magazine.

Jacques Tardi and Gary Panter appear in issue eight and George Herriman's Krazy Kat became a regular feature.

An Egyptian figure who was once of indeterminate gender ( much like Herriman's Krazy Kat in this respect ), Pwt is usually seen trying to catch Crraw in a net.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

`` As Mrs. Morris may be in some want before that time '', Lafayette continued, `` I am going to trouble you with a commission which I beg you will execute with the greatest secrecy.

Early in the present century, W. H. Stevenson continued the attack with a savage article against Guest.

The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.

May the Divine Speaker in Heaven bless this country with Sam Rayburn's continued service here for years to come.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.

Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.

The international theme will be continued with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will give in the Racquet club after the tea.

National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

Attendance continued to run ahead of last year's during the five-day show, with clear skies helping attract fairgoers.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.

Weak reputational cues such as eyespots may become unimportant if there are stronger cues present and may lose their effect with continued exposure unless reinforced with real reputational effects.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

On the one hand, the new democratic institutions worked, notably the National Assembly, with the active participation of UNITA's and the FNLA's elected MPs-while José Eduardo dos Santos continued to exercise his functions without democratic legitimation.