What newspaper magnate provided George Herriman with a lifetime contract?
Joseph Pulitzer
Rupert Murdoch
William Randolph Hearst
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Answer
William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper magnate who provided George Herriman with a lifetime contract. Herriman was a cartoonist who created the comic strip Krazy Kat. The strip was originally published in the Hearst newspaper The New York American, and it ran from 1913 to 1944. Hearst's contract with Herriman gave him creative freedom to produce the strip as he saw fit.
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