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[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/22/2014 11:14 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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>Krazy, being androgynous, may not be a good illustration.

Or even worse -- "When filmmaker Frank Capra, a fan of the strip,
asked Herriman to straightforwardly define the character's sex, the
cartoonist admitted that Krazy was "something like a sprite, an elf.
They have no sex. So that Kat can't be a he or a she."  (Ignatz, of
course, was musine.)

Would we call the even-earlier Alice's Cheshire felinely
seductive?  (Its gender appears not to be stated -- it's referred to
by Alice as "it".)

Joel



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>Krazy and Ignatz.
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>JL
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>On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 4/22/2014 08:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > >"(of women) sexually seductive."
> > >
> > >Not in OED, but must be at least forty years old in my memory.
> >
> > The following all from Wikipedia:
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> > The role of "Catwoman" goes back in print to "The Cat" of Batman #1,
> > Spring 1940.  (It also notes a "hiatus" from 1954 through 1966 "due
> > to the newly developing Comics Code Authority in 1954.")   And she
> > appeared in the live-action television series in 1966.
> >
> > Bob Kane allegedly said in 1989 "I felt that women were feline
> > creatures and men were more like dogs "  Batman and Me. Foestfille,
> > California: Eclipse Books. ISBN 978-1-56060-016-9.  Page 107.
> >
> > And there's always archy and mehitabel.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> > >Current ex. from IMDB:
> > >
> > >"Quickly pigeonholed as a stripper, chorus girl or brazen, gold-digger
> > >type, her feline roles actually belied her off-camera personality as a
> > shy,
> > >intelligent and chic lady."
> > >
> > >JL
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