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Pogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Pogo was almost unrecognizable in his initial appearance, resembling a real possum more closely than in his classic form. Kelly's work with Dell continued well into the successful run of the newspaper strip in the early 1950s, ending after 16 issues of Pogo Possum (each with all-new material) in a dispute over the republication of Kelly's early ...
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Up until Fantagraphics began publishing this hardcover collection, the only somewhat complete trade paperback series, released by Simon & Schuster from 1951 to 1973, [3] had been the most comprehensive collection of the comic strip, "somewhat complete" meaning missing sequences, dropped panels, abridged plot lines and sometimes unsupplemented new drawings. [4]
The Bulldogs can be seen in the last three books of original material: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us, Pogo's Body Politic, and Pogo: Bats And The Belle's Free. Hoover was an English Bulldog, Mitchell was an Eaglet, and the Agnew Hyena was part of the team.
Pogo (comic strip), by Walt Kelly, and its title character; Pogo (dance), a dance style; Pogo Plane, an airplane in The Fantastic Four comics; Pogo (TV channel), an Indian cable television channel; Phinneus Pogo, a sapient chimpanzee in the comic and TV series The Umbrella Academy
Three young opossums with a thirst for adventure. They have a knack for getting into trouble which then Fone Bone saves them from, but they are resourceful and cunning, and play a significant part in Rock Jaw. The possums look suspiciously like Pogo the possum from Walt Kelly's comic strip.
(Pogo was notable for creating the famous slogan: "We have met the enemy and he is us"—first used on a 1970 Earth Day poster.) The Yippies' love of pop-culture was one way to differentiate the Old and New Left, as Jesse Walker writes in Reason magazine: