George Herriman

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go biking in the woods, where they encounter a bug and an elephant.

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus and end up harassing a lovely lady. (imdb)

Krazy Kat, carrying his banjo, leaves home and flies his plane "Kazook" to the house of Ignatz Mouse, whom he loves. Outside Ignatz's window, Krazy starts his serenade. Meanwhile, Ignatz sneaks off to Kelly's Brick Yard and returns with a load of bricks, which he throws at the unsuspecting Krazy from behind. It's no news to Krazy when he's told he has the wrong house. (imdb)

It's winter time for Krazy Kat.

This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time). (imdb comments)

Krazy Kat attempts to get a good night's sleep.

Krazy Kat works for the storks, assisting them in delivering babies. When the storks go out for lunch, Krazy Kat is left in charge...

Krazy Kat and his unidentified female companion go to the beach for a picnic (youtube)

Like everyone else Krazy Kat has been reduced to selling apples on a street corner, but soon he's smiling again and leading the community in a chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again." (imdb)

Krazy, voiced as a burlesque comic, is called in by a housewife who looks like Goofy in drag, to get rid of a mouse and the usual comic incidents ensue. (imdb)

Krazy leads a group of animals in a concert. After a time, he takes on personalities of various musicians of the day. (imdb)

While George Herriman is credited as Kat's creator here, Krazy in this short bears little resemblance to the original comic strip character. In fact, instead of pining for Ignaz Mouse, this Kat is hunting American Indians, what we call Native Americans today, as he gets almost burned at the stake by them (it should be noted that the fire, like in many animated shorts made during this time, has a personality of his own here!). (imdb)

The whole effort is an extension of Krazy Kat's incomprehensible but unrequited love for Ignatz Mouse; Ignatz loves a hippo; the Hippo loves an elephant; and so forth. (imdb)

The setting has Krazy doing the serving and the cooking at a diner, flipping pan-cakes as Ignatz enters to ask for "goose giblets 'n gravy." This leads Krazy to show off some of his characteristic fascination with "woids;" while proceeding to fix the meal of his "dolink," he points out how many names that begin with the letter - oh yes you guessed it - "G."

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: A Duet, He Made Me Love Him, also simply known as A Duet, is a silent short animated film featuring Krazy Kat. It is among the earliest cartoons to feature Krazy who earlier achieved modest success through comic strips. (en.wikipedia.org)

Port Whines: Krazy Kat is a sailor on a ship. The captain gets tossed off of his ship and starts a song and dance with the rest of the crew members.

Krazy and his girlfriend are dancing at a nightclub. In the blink of an eye, the girl gets kidnapped by a hoodlum on a horse. (bcdb.com)

Shoe clerk Krazy gets beaned on the noggin, and the entire contents of his shoe shop comes to (musical) life! Features caricatures of Mae West, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy - as shoes! The animated shoes sing, march and perform "The Peanut Vendor," but hell breaks loose when Krazy awakens. A bit of throwback to the very snappiest early 1930s cartoon musicals.

Little Bo Peep discovers that one of her sheep-students is missing when she counts noses at school. The missing lamb is wandering in the woods and is tricked by the big-bad-wolf into going to the wolf's favorite picnic grounds. Miss Bo Peep enlists the services of detective Krazy Kat, and he and his blood-hounds rescue the victim. (imdb)

Impressive early music synchronization with fevered visuals, 1930s-cartoony to the point of being camp. Classical themes: "Moonlight Sonata", "Poet and Peasant Overture". Popular themes: "Down Home Rag", "St. Louis Blues".

Krazy Kat is a young Russian worker assigned to "blow up the Palace". Filled with authentic-sounding Russian folk melodies.

Krazy plays Napoleon in this savvy spoof of the war of 1812. Enlivened by two original songs.

As the representatives of all the world powers sit around the tables at the World Peace Conference, arguing and scrapping with each other, Krazy Kat introduces a happy note with his trick Comedy Gun, and everything winds up harmoniously...until the Nazis invade most of Europe a few years later. (imdb)

Krazy's a Tin Pan Alley songwriter with writer's block. The devil has a solution: steal a tune from the classics, specifically from Robert Schumann. Krazy resists for a while, but the tune is irresistibly catchy, and soon becomes a hit. This drives a statue/spirit of Schumann crazy, and he's soon seeking out Krazy to get his revenge. (imdb)

Krazy has the entire family come to visit: dozens and dozens of cats who behave like the dwarfs who visit Bilbo's house, eating all the food, destroying the dishes and setting fire to the establishment in this good Krazy Kat cartoon. (imdb)

Svengarlic is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the many cartoons featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat.

Krazy is floating on the ocean when a fish flips her onto a small island, inhabited by cannibals in this mediocre cartoon, filled with good music and outdated, offensive images. (imdb)

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 27, 1930.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released May 29, 1931.

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His first attempts are so bad the saxophone tears up his diploma. He pours honey into the sax, and it improves, barely. Using his new talent, Krazy is rejected in turn by his goldfish, a street band, all the houses in a neighborhood (even the outhouse leaves, holding its nose), a saloon, and finally a woman drawing water from a well. (imdb)

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 7, 1933.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released July 11, 1931.

A piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.

It's a fairly straightforward piece in which Krazy gets involved with a dance contest, a bear, a skunk and a pawnbroker.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 27, 1931.

Krazy and Kitty are riding through the desert on a camel. a turbaned mystic sees them via crystal ball,and magically makes Kitty appear in his castle. Krazy breaches it's walls to confront him and rescue Kitty from his clutches.In the end it's revealed that they've just been listening to a Chandu-type programme. (imdb)

After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician. (imdb)

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 18, 1933.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released September 29, 1933.

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show. (imdb)

In the 1890's, Krazy runs a sleazy dive in the Bowery where Kitty sings and dances for a mostly drunken, low class clientèle. as the beer flows and the piano tinkles, a big, tough guy comes in and starts trouble, but everyone pelts him with fists, furniture and beer mugs until he's vanquished. (imdb)

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released October 12, 1934.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 1, 1935.

A Bill Nolan Krazy Kat cartoon released August 15, 1925.

Krazy is pasting posters all over town. He then goes to visit his girlfriend. At her house, he has lots of problems dealing with her bratty kid.

In the lone Charles Mintz-produced (and Columbia Pictures-released) entry that was modeled from Krazy Kat's creator George Herriman's original designs, Ignatz Mouse devises several means of hurling bricks at Krazy, who considers this a term of affection. Besides Ignatz, Offissa Bull Pupp and Mrs. Kwakk Wakk also make their only Mintz-era appearances.

After a running gun battle through the streets, Krazy finds a gangster gorilla's secret hideout in a spooky graveyard, complete with animated skeletons. The crooks get the drop on him, and take him out to a lonely spot to rub him out, but Krazy makes friends with them instead by singing a weepy chorus of "MOTHER". (imdb)

Short, comical cartoon about comic strip character Krazy Kat who makes several futile attempts to get food.

On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.

Krazy Kat takes on all the animals in the jungle- until he stops dreaming. Then reality sets in, and real animals start chasing him.

Krazy Kat is held in jail and Ignatz finally bails him out after encountering "guilt".