Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels

Jay Cantor. Collier Books, $7.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-02-042081-1

``After 40 years' absence, Krazy Kat and her cartoon cronies, last seen in George Herriman's famous comic strip, reappear full-blown in this brilliant and powerful consideration of some very current anxieties,'' wrote PW of this ``imaginative tour de force.'' (November)

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