{"id":28590,"date":"2019-08-06T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28590"},"modified":"2019-08-06T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T02:45:22","slug":"kittee-tuesday-krazy-kat-1916-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/08\/06\/kittee-tuesday-krazy-kat-1916-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittee Tuesday: Krazy Kat 1916-22 &#8211; free online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the <em>Krazy Kat<\/em> strips are now in the public domain&#8230; which has enabled the <a href=\"https:\/\/joel.franusic.com\/krazy_kat\/\">Krazy Kat Comics Scan Archive 1916-22<\/a>. Free, online and public.  In mega-zoom-o-vision, and often from the original art boards where possible, by the look of it.  Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/kat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/kat.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28593\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the Krazy and Ignatz strip is not, to my knowledge, ever mentioned in letters by Lovecraft, he does seem to allude to it in a letter to Morton of 1924.  Lovecraft is telling his friend Morton of the inner goings-on at <em>Weird Tales<\/em> magazine, and is using the &#8216;snappy patter&#8217; style learned from his young friend Albert Sandusky (aka \u201cWisecrack Sandusky\u201d)&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wot a inside corneal circumnavigation I&#8217;m getting on <em>Weird Tales<\/em>!  I want you should tell &#8217;em, Ignatz!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>inside corneal circumnavigation = a close-up inside-look. The cornea is part of the human eye.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines. Some of the Krazy Kat strips are now in the public domain&#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/08\/06\/kittee-tuesday-krazy-kat-1916-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittee-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}