Lot 107: HERRIMAN, GEORGE. 1880-1944.- Large 10-panel Sunday -Krazy Kat- strip, 560 x 365 mm, ink on artists' board, dated January 28 [1940],

Large 10-panel Sunday Krazy Kat strip, 560 x 365 mm, ink on artists' board, dated January 28 [1940], signed ("Herriman") in penultimate panel, with King Features Syndicate printed copyright strip to penultimate panel and "U.S. Patent" printed strip to first panel, soiling, verso stained. Provenance: from the collection of Penny Phillips, voice of Krazy Kat in the 1962-64 animated series. Offisa Pupp hears a moaning lament from somewhere in the distance and rushes over to find Krazy Kat singing the blues: " My poo' sad hott is breakin' an' all my corns is wile ... my kittil of soup is werra dry, my kendil has gone out, " etc, reducing Offissa Pup to sobbing pleas to cease. Out of the Coconino landscape appears Ignatz, zipping a brick at Krazy's head just as Offissa rushes off. In the next panel Offissa encounters Mock Duck, and asks " I-I-I said- do you hear what I hear? " The freshly clobbered Krazy's tune has changed, amidst a cloud of dust and rising hearts: " There is a heppy lend fur, fur away. " This comic strip and the previous two lots come from the collection of Penny Phillips, who voiced Krazy Kat and other characters in the 1962-64 King Features animated series. This lot includes a copy of a French collection of Krazy Kat (Futuropolis, 1981) inscribed to Phillips by several notable cartoonists, along with original sketch of their characters, including: Jim Davis with a sketch of Garfield; Chris and Dik Browne with sketches of Hagar the Horrible; Fred Laswell with a sketch of Snuffy Smith; John Prentice with a sketch of Rip Kirby; John Cullen Murphy with a sketch of Prince Valiant; and New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon, with a sketch of an everyman.