Walt Kelly's Pogo: "Boom is How it Goes"

Like many of Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strips, the subject matter of this 1956 Sunday strip seems directly related to the militarism of the Cold War. Pogo strips are always well-drawn but looking at this original artwork panel by panel reminds us just how well-inked this strip is as well. Brush pen is expertly applied over blue pencil by the great Walt Kelly.

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Note:  For more strips by Walt Kelly, click here.

Walt Kelly's centennial is Sunday, August 25, 2013. While you're celebrating, don't miss Thomas Haller Buchanan's Whirled of Kelly blog here.

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Pogo's April Opening Day

By some cosmic coincidence, the beginning of the baseball season and April Fools Day are quite close together on the calendar. Walt Kelly takes advantage of this anomaly of the spring season in his Sunday comic strip Pogo published April 2, 1972.

Walt Kelly, Original artwork for Pogo, April 2, 1972

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May 18, 2014 Update:  A scan of the published comic strip appearing in four-tier format and lacking the above panel appears on Thomas Haller Buchanan's Whirled of Kelly blog.

Walt Kelly, Pogo, April 2, 1972

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Note:  Don't strike out. I have more Pogo here.

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