The Illustrated Krazy
Chapter 8 - Hobo Corner
This gallery of Herriman’s editorial work as a staff artist on two Los Angeles newspapers provides an example of how a cartoonist might need to please a publisher. Following his return to California, Herriman briefly worked at the Los Angeles Times, obliging conservative publisher Harrison Gray Otis with an anti-union cartoon that he never would have drawn for William Hearst. Indeed, soon after landing a staff position at Hearst’s competing Los Angeles Examiner, Herriman contributed an editorial cartoon that paid homage to socialist artist William Balfour Ker. Herriman’s heart, however, is more evident in drawings that conveyed his disgust after witnessing a bullfight with his friend Harry Carr.
