Attempted Bloggery: original daily comic strip art for Pogo by Walt Kelly

Showing posts with label original daily comic strip art for Pogo by Walt Kelly. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Pogo: Thinkin' for Others

This original comic strip art for Walt Kelly's Pogo concerns Howland Owl providing the useful service of thinking for others. He'll even compose a day's worth of conversation to save people the trouble of thinking it up themselves! In 1959, just as today, there was no shortage of people willing to do the thinking for us. Churchy's pointed comment that "Other folks been doin' our thinkin' for years an' already is give us a couple of Boom! Boom! Booms!" indicates that Kelly is making an anti-war statement with specific reference to nuclear bombs.

Walt Kelly, Original Artwork for Pogo, July 18, 1959

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item19cf5f0073&item=110853292147&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=Zv4PhLp6HocGRC23iqci2JeQ2LI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_500wt_1180

0465

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Pogo Pandemonia

This is absolutely gorgeous original artwork to a Pogo strip from 1967. I know $676 is a lot of money, but it nevertheless seems to me that Walt Kelly's genius is undervalued in today's comic art marketplace.

Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 12, 1967, eBay Winning Bid

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pogo-Daily-Original-Walt-Kelly-1967-Pogo-Albert-Pandemonia-/110895212456?_trksid=p3984.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D110885194521%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D9106489877281542638&_qi=RTM1066540#ht_500wt_1180

Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 12, 1967

0433

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Pogo: Reading in the Dark

The news, I think, is just as bad today and this original comic strip art by Walt Kelly seems just as relevant now as it was when this Pogo strip was first published in 1961.