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title: "Cartoonist for life: George Herriman"
date: 2016-07-11
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/schirn-comic-george-herriman-krazy-kat-context-en/"
description: "There has always been a lingering prejudice that comics are only for children and the uneducated, but the readers of George Herriman’s comics included US President Woodrow Wilson and Pablo Picasso."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Header_George_Herriman_Krazy_Kat.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Cartoonist for life: George Herriman