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2007
December
Krazy Kat is a
comic strip created by
George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between
1913 and
1944. It was first published in
William Randolph Hearst's
New York Evening Journal, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run.
Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona, Krazy Kat's mixture of surrealism, innocent playfulness, and poetic language have made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than eighty years.
2008
January
Cochineal is the name of both
crimson or
carmine dye and the
cochineal insect (
Dactylopius coccus), a
scale insect in the suborder
Sternorrhyncha, from which the dye is derived. There are other species in the genus
Dactylopius which can be used to produce cochineal extract, but they are extremely difficult to distinguish from
D. coccus, even for expert taxonomists, and the latter scientific name (and the use of the term "cochineal insect") is therefore commonly used when one is actually referring to other biological species; suffice it to say that the reader should be aware that there is more than one cochineal insect. The primary biological distinctions between species are minor differences in host plant preferences, in addition to very different geographic distributions.
D. coccus itself is native to tropical and subtropical
South America and
Mexico.
