Read a book!
Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo: The official history and commemoration of Pogo's first decade... all wrapped up with a running commentary by Walt Kelly (288 pp).
Walt Kelly is one of the great prose stylists of American English. I would put him up against anybody else. The book in question is a survey of Pogo (mostly strips, but some from comics or other collections of miscellanea). If you don't know Pogo (or Go Pogo), the strip is quite a treat. Even if you do, the running commentary by Kelly is well worth the cost of the book.
I bought it used, because this one is out of print (as, alas, is most of Pogo). Fantagraphics took a stab at publishing a complete Pogo about a decade ago, but only got through 11 volumes ('48 to '54 or so).
The good news is that it seems they're trying again. In my search for in-print titles by Walt Kelly, I came across a forthcoming Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, due out at the end of March.
Let's hope they make it this time!
Walt Kelly is one of the great prose stylists of American English. I would put him up against anybody else. The book in question is a survey of Pogo (mostly strips, but some from comics or other collections of miscellanea). If you don't know Pogo (or Go Pogo), the strip is quite a treat. Even if you do, the running commentary by Kelly is well worth the cost of the book.
I bought it used, because this one is out of print (as, alas, is most of Pogo). Fantagraphics took a stab at publishing a complete Pogo about a decade ago, but only got through 11 volumes ('48 to '54 or so).
The good news is that it seems they're trying again. In my search for in-print titles by Walt Kelly, I came across a forthcoming Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, due out at the end of March.
Let's hope they make it this time!