PDF Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Out Of This World At Home Vol 5 Walt Kelly Pogo Walt Kelly Books
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This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order for the first time anywhere―with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In this volume, the Okefenokee gang decide to dig a canal to compete with the Suez (as soon as they can con one of their own into doing the digging) and consider going back to school. Among other hi-jinx, a flea comes a courtin' Beauregard the Dog.
PDF Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Out Of This World At Home Vol 5 Walt Kelly Pogo Walt Kelly Books
"Volume Five of this essential, definitive compilation series arrives and its another heaping helping of Pogo perfection! Two full years of dailies looking better than they've ever looked before and those color Sunday strips looking so crisp and colorful. If you love Walt Kelly's Pogo, you MUST own this book and the four preceding volumes. If you like Pogo, you MUST own this book and the entire series. If you don't know Pogo, you MUST own this book and discover the greatest newspaper strip of the 20th Century. In the next exciting volume we get into NEVER before reprinted strip territory as we enter the turbulent 1960's. Can't wait to hit the Pandemonia period!!"
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Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Out Of This World At Home Vol 5 Walt Kelly Pogo Walt Kelly Books Reviews :
Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Out Of This World At Home Vol 5 Walt Kelly Pogo Walt Kelly Books Reviews
- We live in a time fans of comic strips have ready access to wonderful, hardbound collections of classic strips. Peanuts, Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie - those and others are readily available. But there is no collection more beautiful than Fantagraphics' Pogo reprint volumes.
Pogo may well be the greatest comic ever, a perfect combination of funny animals, deft political satire and incredible writing (Walt Kelly's use of dialect, puns & verbal banter should be studied by anyone who wants to improve his or her own writing). Read Pogo and you're reading a comic that in tone and insight is the direct ancestor of Doonesbury, Bloom County and a handful of other modern classics.
It's important to point out the care and thought that has gone into this collection. There are so many things you'll miss just looking at the picture of the cover on . The books have incredible embossed covers. The bindings are sewn with just the right amount of tightness - so the book lays flat, but you don't have to worry that in a couple years the pages will be falling out. The paper chosen has weight and looks beautiful. The colors on the Sunday pages are gorgeous. These very well-though-out choices in how to put together the book are more than worthy of these classic strips.
The book has been designed so the strips appear at a size that is easy to read. And there is a wide gutter in the middle of the book, so that the edges of the comics are easy to see. (There have been collections of other comics from other companies where I have accidentally broken book's spine trying to read parts of the strips lost in the gutter.)
I honestly can find no fault with the Pogo collection. There's an index (something missing in most comic collections). These stories are from the 1950s, so R.C. Harvey has provided a section, "Swamp Talk," in each collection that explains some of the more obscure cultural/topical references. The biographical material on Kelly is insightful and every collection has an introduction by someone you probably didn't know was a Pogo fan (this time it's Jack Tapper).
In short, this is a collection that can't be recommended enough. - Volume Five of this essential, definitive compilation series arrives and its another heaping helping of Pogo perfection! Two full years of dailies looking better than they've ever looked before and those color Sunday strips looking so crisp and colorful. If you love Walt Kelly's Pogo, you MUST own this book and the four preceding volumes. If you like Pogo, you MUST own this book and the entire series. If you don't know Pogo, you MUST own this book and discover the greatest newspaper strip of the 20th Century. In the next exciting volume we get into NEVER before reprinted strip territory as we enter the turbulent 1960's. Can't wait to hit the Pandemonia period!!
- This is the fifth volume in the series that reprints the complete syndicated "Pogo" comic strip. The love and care that has gone into each volume is an honor to the memories of Walt Kelly and of his daughter Carolyn, who worked hard to get everything just right in her last years. 1957 and 1958 in "Pogo" were years of fun, hilarious action and wisdom. A landmark sequence that ran for four months introduced several of Pogo's possum relatives and is reproduced in full for the very first time (a mere handful of those strips are included in a tenth-anniversary hardcover collection, but none of them were used in the famous Simon & Schuster paperback compilations that were issued when Walt Kelly was alive). There is also the controversial sequence about "speakeasy schools" established in Okefenokee after many Southern public schools shut down rather than admit African-American students. A large number of the delightful Sunday "Pogo" strips from those years are also reproduced for the first time, in their original colors. Like series editor Mark Evanier, I grew up in Los Angeles, which wasn't the best place for young "Pogo" fans--the LOS ANGELES TIMES never ran the Sunday strips and eventually cancelled the daily strips around 1963 (my family moved to New York in 1964, and I was never "Pogo"-deprived for the remainder of Kelly's life). It's wonderful to pick up this book and see classic strips I never saw, or saw only once when I was a little boy. Whether you are an old "Pogo" lover, or new to the cult, and whether or not you've read earlier volumes, this one is a must!
- I first became a Pogo/Walt Kelly fan during the 1952 political conventions where Dwight David Eisenhower, known reverently to his friends as Ike, rose to the presidency using the slogan "I Like Ike". Walt Kelly was a commentator who drew his daily comic strip on live TV and ran Pogo Possum for the presidency with the slogan "I Go Pogo". Walt Kelly was the closest humorist to Mark Twain. I love these comic strips.
- Well printed with clear reproduction of the original weekday and Sunday strips. Helpful to know a bit of the history of the late '50s. An essay at the back of the book tries to put some of the references in context.
Recommended. - What a marvelous book! In 1957-58, Kelly's drawing skills had reached their peak and his sharp political commentary -- seasoned with laugh-out-loud humor and wordplay -- was really taking off.
- Exactly what my 12 year old wanted for his birthday! Thank you!
- Great collection of dailies and Sundays
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