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I just noticed Rumple Foreskin's sig includes one of the most philosophical quotes ever gleaned from the Sunday Funnies...
I was raised on Walt Kelly's wonderful Swampland critturs, and I made sure to find them for my own kids too. And, when we visit our Georgia relatives, we try to make time to visit the real-life Okeefenokee Swamp, his setting for these wonderful stories.
Anyone else?
 
I remember them....but now you have me missing Calvin and Hobbs for some reason....not too many good cartoons out there these days.
 
Blackie Malone said:
I remember them....but now you have me missing Calvin and Hobbs for some reason....not too many good cartoons out there these days.
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Yeah, Calvin and Hobbs had some great episodes that were one-hundred-percent homage to Pogo- the two figures lazing in the midst of the landscape, for instance, or the philosophising while in a moving vehicle- but, Kelly put his characters in a slow-drifting skiff, while C&H rocketed along in a careening wagon!
 
Stella_Omega said:
Yeah, Calvin and Hobbs had some great episodes that were one-hundred-percent homage to Pogo- the two figures lazing in the midst of the landscape, for instance, or the philosophising while in a moving vehicle- but, Kelly put his characters in a slow-drifting skiff, while C&H rocketed along in a careening wagon!
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I never noticed the parallels.
 
Kelly's Pogo is a work of genius. Stella O is completely correct to see its influence on Calvin & Hobbes, in my view. I discovered Pogo and Krazy Kat at about the same time in my life. I read them to my kid. I read them even now.
 
Stella, CantDog, Blackie,

Pogo is where it's at.

I've no idea what cockles are or their function in one's heart, but if I do happen to have any, knowing I'm not alone in being a Pogo fan would, I'm sure, warm them.

And now, just for y'all (and all other Pogo fans), here is his most famous observation.


http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Chem110e/News/Pogo.jpg

Rumple Foreskin :cool:
 
I'm a C & H fanatic. Loved that cartoon and was really upset when Watterson gave it up.

We never had pongo in our sunday comics. Maybe a little before my time?
 
Walt Kelly was the satirical genius of the 20th Century.

Who else could do Spiro T. Agnew as a hyena, dressed in some tinpot dictator's uniform to boot? Brilliant.

And that beautiful piece of work he did, spitting McCarthy's show trials using Lewis Carroll's trial from Alice in Wonderland with character's from the comic playing the roles. Fuck! Just too damned good.

There was never a comic more complete in my opinion.

But my all time favourite line of Kelly's was from his 20th Anniversary Pogo collection. He was commenting on McCarthy. "We astounded our friends abroad and frightened our enemies at home. They had no idea we could be so soft in the head or so hard in the heart."

I wish we had someone of his calibre around today. Perfect fodder for a genius such as Kelly.
 
Colleen Thomas said:
I'm a C & H fanatic. Loved that cartoon and was really upset when Watterson gave it up.

We never had pongo in our sunday comics. Maybe a little before my time?
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You and me both Colleen. One of my local papers is reprinting Calvin and Hobbes. Repeats, but I'll take what I can get.

And Pogo was a little before your time. Kelly died in 74, as I recall. About the time I left high school and moved out West. Damn, I was pissed about that.
 
rgraham666 said:
You and me both Colleen. One of my local papers is reprinting Calvin and Hobbes. Repeats, but I'll take what I can get.

And Pogo was a little before your time. Kelly died in 74, as I recall. About the time I left high school and moved out West. Damn, I was pissed about that.
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Did he? Damn. :( That's one thing about only knowing him through collections - you miss the sad news that happened before you existed. I don't know why, but I never even imagined he might be gone.
 
minsue said:
Did he? Damn. :( That's one thing about only knowing him through collections - you miss the sad news that happened before you existed. I don't know why, but I never even imagined he might be gone.
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As long as we remember, and laugh, he's never gone.
 
"Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla Wash and Kalamazoo.
Nora's freezing on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower allegaroo!"

And the Tulsa and Dallas papers have started rerunning Calvin and Hobbes.
 
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