Trivia / Krazy Kat

• Acting for Two: Paul Frees voiced Ignatz and Offisa Pupp.
• Died During Production: Herriman died unexpectedly while the strip was still running. Unusually for a comic of the era, he was not replaced, leaving the strip at an abrupt end.
• He Also Did: Derek Mogford, who directed the 1996 stop-motion short linked on the main work page, also directed the Puffs tissue commercials from the 2000s
• Reality Subtext: One arc depicts Krazy's black fur being recolored white; Ignatz falls in love with him/her, but upon discovering that Krazy is actually dark-furred, he responds by attacking him/her with a brick. Retrospective analysts note parallels with George Herriman's experiences as a mixed-race man (with both Black and white heritage) who presented as white throughout his life, hiding his kinky hair under a hat and claiming that he was ethnically Greek when pressed about it.
• Referenced by...: Ignatz and Krazy (along with Popeye and Pogo) make a cameo in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in wall decorations behind SpongeBob and Patrick when they're gorging themselves on ice cream at the Goofy Goober's.
  • The "Traditional Animation" lesson on the educational website Brain POP showcases multiple frames of the Krazy Kat cartoons.
• Science Marches On: In the early-Twenties, wherein a strip involved a radium-painted brick, the dangers of radioactivity were not widely known, and people were, in fact, using radium as a kind of phosphorescent paint with no idea they were damaging their own health.
• What Could Have Been: According to a YouTube comment from one of the animators, the 1996 stop-motion short was intended to be part of a cancelled documentary on George Herriman for the BBC.

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