[HN Gopher] E. E. Cummings and Krazy Kat
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       E. E. Cummings and Krazy Kat
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-07-21 15:19 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jf wrote:
       | If you're new to Krazy Kat, I highly recommend reading it! I put
       | a bunch of Krazy Kat comics that are in the public domain online
       | here: https://joel.franusic.com/krazy_kat/
        
         | tmountain wrote:
         | Wow, I found your site a while back via Google looking for
         | Krazy Kat online. Not surprised to see that you are a HN user.
         | Thank you for putting these online and going to the trouble to
         | scrape everything together!
        
           | jf wrote:
           | You're welcome! I hope that you spent many happy hours
           | reading Krazy Kat
        
       | TomMckenny wrote:
       | Shouldn't that be "e e cummings"?
        
         | corrral wrote:
         | Short answer: no.
         | 
         | Long answer, according to Garner:
         | 
         | Cummings, E.E.
         | 
         | The poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), a shy man, early
         | in his career used the lowercase _i_ for the first-person
         | singular pronoun. (This habit, now commonplace in Internet
         | exchanges, was highly unusual.) Cummings 's critics then began
         | referring to him sarcastically in print as _e.e. cummings_. The
         | practice stuck, and that was how his name appeared on book
         | covers. Does this mean we should all use lower-case letters in
         | spelling his name? Those most familiar with the man think not,
         | and they use ordinary capitalization. Norman Friedman, the
         | founder and then president of the E.E. Cummings Society, summed
         | up the poet 's "philosophy of typography" this way: "that _he_
         | could use caps and lowercase as he wished, but that when others
         | referred to him by name they ought to use caps. " [....] Nor is
         | it true that Cummings legally changed his name to lowercase
         | letters. After that story appeared in the preface to a
         | biography about Cummings, his widow angrily denied it.
         | 
         | (copied, by typing, from _Garner 's Modern English Usage_--any
         | errors probably introduced by me, the typist)
        
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       | overthemoon wrote:
       | Really wonderful piece. I bought a Krazy Kat collection in
       | college when I'd read that Watterson was a fan, I didn't realize
       | it had such a reach.
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | I wonder how much of an influence on Zippy was had.
        
         | drewcoo wrote:
         | https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2018/04/25/ask-a-car...
        
       | every wrote:
       | Archy and Mehitabel are kindred spirits as well:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
        
         | woodruffw wrote:
         | Nice timing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32196081
         | 
         | Edit: Not sarcasm, just to make sure I'm not misread! I'm glad
         | someone else on HN knows Archy and Mehitabel!
        
           | every wrote:
           | Toujours gai...
        
       | woodruffw wrote:
       | For some more of Herriman's work: many editions of Archy and
       | Mehitabel[1] were illustrated by him[2].
       | 
       | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_Mehitabel
       | 
       | [2]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/1064044254
        
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