Krazy Kat and Krazy Love

Reading Krazy Kat actually makes me motion sick. So much is going on and so many things jump around back and forth and it's all such a great jumble that it creates actual motion when I read it. That feeling of erratic motion really helps contribute even more to the highly disorienting feeling that Krazy Kat creates. Not only are the visuals from panel to panel disorienting, but the dialogue as well. It uses a phonetic way of writing the words so that you can hear the way the characters talk and the accents they have, but it's very different from most writing that is more straightforward. It takes some getting used to, but after a while it certainly contributes to the characters and further fleshes out their personalities. The story line tends to jump back and forth or sometimes starts a story and then changes completely. For example, when suddenly the strip starts off with a stork carrying something and within two panels the story changes and the beginning has nothing to do with the rest of the panels, that is definitely intentionally trying to not make any lick of sense. 

So from my perspective the artist is trying to do everything he can possibly do to make Krazy Kat feel completely non-sensical and make you in fact feel kinda 'krazy' yourself. It seems to me that is the point of Krazy Kat; to be so nonsensical that it becomes humorous how much everything is so illogical. While you are trying so hard as a reader to make sense out of it all it becomes kind of a mad scramble that turns into mad hilarity where you feel insane for trying to make sense of something that isn't supposed to work that way. Crazy things just happen. Deal with it. It's Krazy Kat.

I would say that Krazy Kat is a kind of satire of the illogical rhythm of love and how nonsensical it is to fall in love, especially unrequited love. Most of the stories surround Krazy Kat's obsessive love with Ignatz and Ignatz's hate for Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat is in love with a mouse, which in pop culture and nature should be Krazy's enemy, so that is non-sensical in itself. He/she/it is in love with something that naturally would normally never love crazy back. So is the dilemma of unrequited love. It doesn't make sense to love someone that hates you and throws bricks at your head. But Krazy still does and so do hopelessly in love humans. But Krazy is so innocent and only sees the good in Ignatz and wants so desperately for him to love him back that he decides that the abuse is actually his way of saying he loves him. That idea is so illogical and goes against everything rational about when people hurt us, but love is so blinding that it makes people totally irrational and see things how they want. So it seems what the author is trying to say is that love just makes no sense and people in love abandon all rational thinking. Love is definitely krazy.