Walt Kelly's Pogo: J. Edgar Hoover, Bulldog

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was investigating Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly around the time Kelly depicted him as a bulldog in this Sunday strip from 1969. The unnamed bulldog is from the FYI and he's looking into stolen dog furs. 

Walt Kelly
Pogo, original Sunday comic strip art
September 21, 1969

Walt Kelly

eBay Listing Ended September 19, 2013

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Walt Kelly

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Newspapers could reconfigure the panels from three to four rows in order to have the strip occupy a full page rather than a half page.

Walt Kelly
Pogo
September 21, 1969

https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/Pogo_1969-09-21_100.jpg

Published final panel

https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/pogo.html

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Frances's Copy of The World of John Lardner

Sports writer John Lardner (1912-1960) wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, Newsweek, the New Yorker, and other leading publications. After his death, Roger Kahn (1927-2020) collected much of his work in The World of John Lardner (1961). Walt Kelly (1913-1973), of Pogo fame, provided the cover illustration in a straightforward journalistic style and wrote the preface as well. 

Tom Bloom provides us with a look at a very nice copy signed by both Roger Kahn and Walt Kelly in 1962. Frances, the lucky recipient, may have been a journalism student judging from Kahn's inscription. Underneath those words, Kelly just might have something to say about Kahn's handwriting.

Walt Kelly
The World of John Lardner edited by Roger Kahn
1961

Photo by Tom Bloom

Signed by Roger Kahn and Walt Kelley

Photo by Tom Bloom

Meanwhile, the good folks who edit Wikipedia have been unable to find a citation to verify Kelly's involvement with this project. Why such a citation is needed for information clearly visible on the book's cover is anybody's guess. So right now, having seen a beautiful copy of the book, you know more than Wikipedia's readers do.

From the Wikipedia Entry for John Lardner (sports writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lardner_(sports_writer)

Note:  My thanks to Tom Bloom for the superb photos. This is Tom's tenth contribution to Attempted Bloggery.

Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer, passed away on February 6.

If anyone knows how to insert a proper citation in a Wikipedia entry, feel free.

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Walt Kelly's Pogo: Defend the Country

Because "Runnin' from the Martian don't help..." In a pair of sequential Pogo comic strips from 1959 by Walt Kelly, Beauregard Bugleboy explains to Albert Alligator that "You gotta defend the country."

Walt Kelly, original Pogo comic strip art, February 5, 1959

Walt Kelly, original Pogo comic strip art, February 6, 1959

Walt Kelly, original Pogo comic strip art, February 5 and 6, 1959

eBay Listing Ended October 10, 2013

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Walt Kelly: Prehysterical Pogo Panel

This original comic panel from Walt Kelly's book Prehysterical Pogo (in Pandemonia) doesn't seem all that engaging on its own. The characters are unusually small and the slight fragment of a story doesn't make much sense out of context. Still, as original Pogo art by Kelly, it sold pretty cheaply.

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http://pogoinpandemonia.blogspot.com/2009/05/sense-found-in-nonsense.html

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Walt Kelly's Pogo: Lost

Here's some more original Pogo Sunday comic strip art by the great Walt Kelly. Albert Alligator is "Lost, lost, lost." Will he find his way back?

Walt Kelly, Original Sunday Artwork for Pogo, August 11, 1963

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Note:  Check out more Walt Kelly posts here.

If that's not enough, there's the Whirled of Kelly blog here. Also you might try the Pogo in Pandemonia blog over here. It hasn't been updated in a year, but so what?

There's a lot of football on TV. Celebrate the new football season with my football posts here.

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Walt Kelly's Pogo: Albert is Speechless

Even when I don't particularly care for the gag, as is the case with this Sunday Pogo original comic strip art from 1955, I love to see Walt Kelly's incredible line work up close. For me, an amateur, one of the most difficult things about drawing is the physical challenge of applying ink to paper. Walt Kelly was a master of the brush pen!

Walt Kelly, Original Sunday Artwork for Pogo, January 9, 1955

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Note:  My Pogo posts mostly feature original comic strip art from eBay. You can see some gorgeous Walt Kelly art here.

Thomas Haller Buchanan's Whirled of Kelly blog is always sensational, but for Walt Kelly's centennial he's published an amazing 'zine tribute. See it all here. He also has a Pogo in Pandemonia blog that's been kind of quiet this past year. Still, you may enjoy it here.

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