Oblong quarto. Vol. 1: (xvii) , [1], 289pp., [1]. Vol. 2: (xviii), 337pp., [1]. Illustrated tan slipcase, white and black lettering on one cover, mustard yellow lettering on the other cover. Red and black lettering on slipcase spine, including illustration. Blue cloth boards, with blind-stamped illustrations on covers, blue lettering on spine. This 2 volume set is the first 2 volumes in a 12 volume series, Volume 1 Through the Wild Blue Yonder 1949-2950 & Volume 2 Bonafide Balderdash 1951-1952. Both volumes illustrated in both b/w and color. "From '48 til half past '73, Walt Kelly's Pogo was one of the brightest spots on any newspaper comics page fortunate enough to have it - bright in terns of its characters (colorful even in the black and white dailies) and bright in the sense of being witty and smart. This very dust jacket adorns the first of 12 volumes that will finally collect the entire run of what many call the best damn newspaper strip of all time." - Publisher Bottom of vol. 1 dust jacket with light nick at bottom right. Bottom right of vol. 2 dust jacket with very light bumping. Light stain near bottom of rear cover, Vol. 1. Slipcase, bindings and interiors in very good+ to near fine condition overall.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips (2 Vols. Complete)

Publisher

Fantagraphic Books, Seattle

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

ISBN 10

1560978694

ISBN 13

9781560978695

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

vg+ to near fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Children's, Illustrated

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Synopsis

The first volume of the second-most requested strip collection reprint in Fantagraphics' history.

Walt Kelly started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Rather than take sides in a bitter labor strike, he moved back east in 1941 and began drawing comic books.

It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Animal Comics as a secondary player in the “Albert the Alligator” feature. It didn’t take long until Pogo became the comic’s leading character. After WWII, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike.

Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly’s scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics ― Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo ― dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays.

This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.

Special features in this sumptuous premiere volume, which is produced with the full cooperation of Kelly’s heirs, include a biographical introduction by Kelly biographer Steve Thompson, an extensive section by comics historian R. C. Harvey explaining some of the more obscure current references of the time, a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin, and more. 32 pages of full-color and 320 pages of black-and-white comics

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Walt Kelly is the creator of the legendary Pogo comic strip. He was born in 1913 and passed away in 1973.

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