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

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pogo-Sunday-Original-by-Walt-Kelly-J-Edgar-Hoover-9-21-1969-/111168504828?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19e228c3fc&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Walt Kelly

eBay Item Description

[End of eBay Listing]

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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Walt Kelly's Pogo: Witchcraft!

These two consecutive daily comic strips from Walt Kelly's Pogo appeared in newspapers back in December 1958. They feature characters Sarcophagus MacAbre, Wiley Catt, Ol' Mouse, and Snavely the worm. The subject matter--the former two characters misconstruing the latter's Mother Goose and schoolhouse arithmetic for witchcraft and heresy--may sound somewhat obscure today, but the eBay seller does an admirable job explaining it and putting it in the historical context of the McCarthy Era. As always, Walt Kelly's ink work is superb.

  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-Pogo-Daily-Original-Strips-by-Walt-Kelly-Published-12-3-58-12-4-58-/111168488232?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19e2288328&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Note:  You must know by now that I have more Walt Kelly posts on view here.

There's also a lot of original comic strip art featured on this blog here.

Be sure not to miss the Whirled of Kelly blog here and Pogo in Pandemonia here.

Seasonal blog posts about Halloween can be found here.

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