Dig, you curious cats. Here're the answers you seek!
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Meanwhile, back on #46...
Readers of the comments may have noticed that the Martian Mindbender (arguably the greatest encyclopedic mind on comics in the midwest) declared the answer to be "Esmeralda".
Our quizmasters, John Stanley & Mal Whyte, proclaim the answer to be "Desi"
Let's check with Legal for our definitive answer:
I'm calling it as Desdemona. Never argue with money bearing lawyers.
BTW - Did you know that George Herriman was an assistant on early Mutt & Jeff, home of Cicero's Cat? So if you see any similarities to Krazy Kat in design, now you know why.
Of course, Herriman took things to his own glorious heights, far removed these beginnings. But the echoes are there.
Meanwhile, if you'd like to check out more of Cicero's Cat from Al Smith (despite the Bud Fisher credit, Smith worked for decades under Fisher's name) visit John Glen Taylor's Easily Mused post featuring 25 old Cicero's Cat toppers.
BELOW
Meanwhile, back on #46...
Readers of the comments may have noticed that the Martian Mindbender (arguably the greatest encyclopedic mind on comics in the midwest) declared the answer to be "Esmeralda".
Our quizmasters, John Stanley & Mal Whyte, proclaim the answer to be "Desi"
Let's check with Legal for our definitive answer:
I'm calling it as Desdemona. Never argue with money bearing lawyers.
BTW - Did you know that George Herriman was an assistant on early Mutt & Jeff, home of Cicero's Cat? So if you see any similarities to Krazy Kat in design, now you know why.
Of course, Herriman took things to his own glorious heights, far removed these beginnings. But the echoes are there.
Meanwhile, if you'd like to check out more of Cicero's Cat from Al Smith (despite the Bud Fisher credit, Smith worked for decades under Fisher's name) visit John Glen Taylor's Easily Mused post featuring 25 old Cicero's Cat toppers.
quiz from The Great Comics Game by John Stanley & Mal Whyte (1966), Cicero's Cat from Cicero's Cat #s 1 & 2 (1959)
Dang, I was sure it was Esmeralda, altho it's been ages since I've actually read any Cicero's Cat strips, so I may have glitched (as I'm fond of saying, the problem with knowing everything is that it's so hard to remember it all at once!)--in any event, the boy cat had a female name, so the origin of Krazy Kat's gender issues clearly goes back a long way. Oh, under the cartoon symbols, I always thought the stars represented pain, while the twittering birds were for regaining consciousness after being knocked out. Who knew? Oh, yeah, Aphrodite.
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I concur on the pain/unconsciousness swap, but after their use of the word 'Odoriferousness', i was disinclined to argue with them.
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