Rank:
9549th, it has 4.4K monthly / 7.8K total views.
Authors:
Walt kelly
Genres:
Comic
,
Josei(W)
,
Seinen(M)
,
Comedy
,
Parody
Translated language:
English
Summary:
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 didnt take long until Pogo became the comics 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 Kellys 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 Kellys 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 (read an unexpurgated version here), a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin, and more.
show the remaining
Chapters (86)
read on v3x
${localHistory_item.text_epi}
${localHistory_item._time_ago}
Chapter 85
Agamemnon
1
+
162
3 hours ago
Chapter 84
Agamemnon
1
+
192
25 hours ago
Chapter 83
Agamemnon
0
+
205
50 hours ago
Chapter 82
Agamemnon
3
+
207
74 hours ago
Chapter 81
Agamemnon
2
+
285
6 days ago
Chapter 80
Agamemnon
1
+
255
8 days ago
Chapter 79
Agamemnon
0
+
301
9 days ago
Chapter 78
Agamemnon
0
+
346
12 days ago
Chapter 77
Agamemnon
0
+
278
13 days ago
Chapter 76
Agamemnon
1
+
236
15 days ago
Chapter 75
Agamemnon
2
+
305
15 days ago
Chapter 74
Agamemnon
1
+
278
17 days ago
Chapter 73
Agamemnon
0
+
265
19 days ago
Chapter 72
Agamemnon
1
+
295
20 days ago
Chapter 71
Agamemnon
5
+
364
21 days ago
Chapter 70
Agamemnon
4
+
291
22 days ago
Chapter 69
Agamemnon
2
+
327
24 days ago
Chapter 68
Agamemnon
3
+
335
25 days ago
Chapter 67
Agamemnon
2
+
313
27 days ago
Chapter 66
Agamemnon
2
+
314
28 days ago
Chapter 65
Agamemnon
4
+
347
29 days ago
Chapter 64
Agamemnon
5
+
359
32 days ago
Chapter 63
Agamemnon
1
+
374
34 days ago
Chapter 62
Agamemnon
1
+
335
36 days ago
Chapter 61
Agamemnon
2
+
364
37 days ago
Chapter 60
Agamemnon
2
+
377
38 days ago
Chapter 59
Agamemnon
1
+
377
40 days ago
Chapter 58
Agamemnon
3
+
405
42 days ago
Chapter 57
Agamemnon
4
+
325
43 days ago
Chapter 56
Agamemnon
4
+
334
44 days ago
Chapter 55
Agamemnon
1
+
463
46 days ago
Chapter 54
Agamemnon
4
+
396
47 days ago
Chapter 53
Agamemnon
2
+
329
48 days ago
Chapter 52
Agamemnon
3
+
356
49 days ago
Chapter 51
Agamemnon
4
+
388
50 days ago
Chapter 50
Agamemnon
2
+
370
51 days ago
Chapter 49
Agamemnon
3
+
316
52 days ago
Chapter 48
Agamemnon
1
+
314
53 days ago
Chapter 47
Agamemnon
6
+
272
54 days ago
Chapter 46
Agamemnon
5
+
313
55 days ago
Chapter 45
Agamemnon
5
+
348
56 days ago
Chapter 44
Agamemnon
2
+
351
57 days ago
Chapter 43
Agamemnon
5
+
390
58 days ago
Chapter 42
Agamemnon
3
+
403
59 days ago
Chapter 41
Agamemnon
2
+
403
60 days ago
Chapter 40
Agamemnon
4
+
386
61 days ago
Chapter 39
Agamemnon
3
+
341
62 days ago
Chapter 38
Agamemnon
3
+
468
63 days ago
Chapter 37
Agamemnon
3
+
448
64 days ago
Chapter 36
Agamemnon
1
+
507
65 days ago
Chapter 35
Agamemnon
2
+
426
65 days ago
Chapter 34
Agamemnon
2
+
429
66 days ago
Chapter 33
Agamemnon
3
+
418
67 days ago
Chapter 32
Agamemnon
4
+
431
68 days ago
Chapter 31
Agamemnon
2
+
502
69 days ago
Chapter 30
Agamemnon
5
+
496
70 days ago
Chapter 29
Agamemnon
1
+
489
71 days ago
Chapter 28
Agamemnon
1
+
278
71 days ago
Chapter 27
Agamemnon
4
+
518
72 days ago
Chapter 26
Agamemnon
4
+
504
73 days ago
Chapter 25
Agamemnon
3
+
384
73 days ago
Chapter 24
Agamemnon
4
+
495
74 days ago
Chapter 23
Agamemnon
4
+
509
75 days ago
Chapter 22
Agamemnon
4
+
522
76 days ago
Chapter 21
Agamemnon
1
+
487
78 days ago
Chapter 20
Agamemnon
4
+
568
80 days ago
Chapter 19
Agamemnon
3
+
558
81 days ago
Chapter 18
Agamemnon
2
+
517
82 days ago
Chapter 17
Agamemnon
2
+
594
84 days ago
Chapter 16
Agamemnon
2
+
532
85 days ago
Chapter 15
Agamemnon
4
+
511
86 days ago
Chapter 14
Agamemnon
5
+
536
87 days ago
Chapter 13
Agamemnon
4
+
575
88 days ago
Chapter 12
Agamemnon
4
+
537
89 days ago
Chapter 11
Agamemnon
1
+
578
89 days ago
Chapter 10
Agamemnon
4
+
456
91 days ago