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Krazy Kat, the Columbia stock poster created for theaters showing Krazy Kat animated animation cartoons. There were two different stock posters created by Columbia, one in 1931, and one in 1936, and they have very different images of Krazy Kat. We have seen only two posters for specific Krazy Kat cartoons, but they may have made them for all of them, but if so, they are incredibly rare, as are the stock posters, because we have only auctioned two of the 1936 style and one of the 1931 style. Each of the stock posters have a rectangular blank area at the bottom for adding in the title of the cartoon the theater would play that day. By not imprinting a title, a frugal theater owner could reuse this poster over and over! Note that Krazy Kat is an American newspaper comic strip by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, Krazy Kat's mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years. The strip was adapted into animated cartoons many times from 1916 to 1940 (Columbia distributed them from 1929 to 1939).

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