It’s fashionable to hate Garfield, with his repetitive dread of Mondays and abuse of Odie and embrace of lasagna and so forth and so on. Or, at least, that’s what I assume still goes on there. To tell the truth, for all the strips I read every day, Garfield isn’t one of them.However, that said […]
Since I’m tied up running workshops for young writers, here’s a little something from Walt Kelly’s 1956 collection, “Songs of the Pogo.” Also available as an audio book or some such.
Cartoon Brew has a sliver of insight into a bit of animation history. Famed animator Chuck Jones was to do a special with Walt Kelly’s Pogo. But the project went south.“How did you ever okay Chuck’s Pogo story?,” Ward Kimball asked Walt Kelly shortly after the special aired on TV. “I didn’t, for Godsake!,” Kelly […]
Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ”Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute at […]
The long overdue Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips is now at the printers according to The BeatEach volume contains two years of Walt Kelly’s magnum opus. Since the first year started in mid-year, there’s room in the book to also include the pre-syndication Pogo strips he did for The New York Star, […]
Jon Carroll writing for the San Francisco Chronicle writes his fond memories of the great Pogo strip.Pogo had it all: love, fear, friendship, ambivalence, pails of water, morality, plus a love of high-flown language and, not incidentally, wonderful draftsmanship. Kelly was a master of getting a lot of stuff in one small panel. … One […]
I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson:Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others we […]