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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 of course a joke" he is misquoting a popular American joke. The actual answer is "when it's ajar".

Artist: George Herriman
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 work is in the public domain in the United States and the source country. In most cases, this means that its copyright expired under the law of the source country and it was either published prior to January 1, 1923 or its copyright also expired under the law of the United States. Its copyright has also expired in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years or fewer. To the uploader: please provide relevant publication and authorship details. For non-US works, consider attaching a country-specific tag if available.

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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)