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Summary

A rare full-page Saturday Krazy Kat comic in which Krazy tries to understand why Door Mouse (a minor character from the early strips) is carrying a door. Krazy expounds upon the door as a useless object while Door Mouse uses it as a bridge, a raft, and a table, and to protect them from the elements. Ultimately it is used to block one of Ignatz's bricks from hitting Krazy. Click the image to view it full-size.

Note: When Krazy Kat says "The best thing you can say about it is, when is a door not a door, and the answer is, when it's a jug -- which is all a joke" he is misquoting a popular American joke. The actual answer is "when it's ajar".

Note also that in the lower-left panel (#19) Krazy is actually leaning not against a physical object but rather the edge of the panel.

Artist: George Herriman (1880-1944)
Published in the New York Evening Journal
January 21, 1922

The colour Saturday Krazy Kats were a short-lived experiment from early 1922. They were the only colour Krazy strips before 1935 (Citation: A Katnip Kantata in the Key of K, 1991. Eclipse Books/Turtle Island, ISBN 1560600640). This image scanned from page 31 of the cited volume. Public domain owing to age.

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. This work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". For details, see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag. This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain. Please be aware that depending on local laws, re-use of this content may be prohibited or restricted in your jurisdiction. See Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs.

File history from EN Wiki

• (cur) 00:32, February 3, 2006 . . Andrew Levine (Talk) . . 840x969 (197,712 bytes) (Better-colored, complete version of the same strip.)
• (del) (rev) 11:27, December 9, 2005 . . Donihue (Talk) . . 650x361 (109,868 bytes) (Detail of a rare full Sunday page in which Krazy tries to understand why Ignatz is carrying a door. Krazy expounds upon the door as a useless object while Ignatz uses it as a bridge, a raft, a table and to protect them from the elements. Artist: [[George)

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