Topic: Walt Kelly

The Best Webcomics

Once upon a time, your local paper's comics page-especially the Sunday edition-was a treasure trove of entertainment. From the early days of Krazy...

Going down the road with Pogo

0 . If only I remembered the name of the book! I had it forever, and I may have gotten rid of it in one of my periodic fits of deacquisitioning my...

Pain Will Be Widespread If Tax Breaks Are Cut

"We have met the enemy and he is us," said the cartoonist Walt Kelly. He was talking about preserving the environment, but he could have been...
When we consider what the factors are that affect water quality, I am often reminded of the observation made by Walt Kelly?s cartoon character Pogo to his friend Porky as they stand in a trash filled swamp - ? According to the U ...

Are All Writers Insecure?

Wait -- don?t answer that. Her status updates are the funniest things I?ve ever seen on Facebook! In books! That made a profit!I, on the other hand, have spent the last twenty years wrestling with insecurity and procrastination, trying to ...

Pogo

Pogo, popular 20th-century American comic-strip character, a cartoon possum who was the main actor in an often politically charged daily newspaper strip of the same name.. Created by cartoonist Walt Kelly, Pogo first appeared in 1941 in the Dell Comics' anthology Animal ...

Walt Kelly

Oct. 18, 1973, Los Angeles, Calif.), American creator of the comic strip "Pogo," which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire.. In 1935 Kelly went to Hollywood, where he did animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions ...

Gregory McNamee

Christmas is coming, time to sing a song to the tune of " The swamp-dwelling possum was the brainchild of Walt Kelly (1913-1973), a cartoonist whose political fun-poking delighted millions of Americans half a century ago.. Kelly worked throughout the 1930s and early ...

John Birchard

Christmas is coming, time to sing a song to the tune of " The swamp-dwelling possum was the brainchild of Walt Kelly (1913-1973), a cartoonist whose political fun-poking delighted millions of Americans half a century ago.. Kelly worked throughout the 1930s and early ...

We Have Met the Enemy...

Walt Kelly, the cartoonist who pro- duced Pogo, created a poster for Earth Day in 1970. A year later, also on Earth Day, he did a two-panel comic in which Pogo is sitting in a trash-filled swamp and says, "Yep, son, we ...