The Best of Pogo: An Exuberant Collection of Walt Kelly's Immortal Cartoons Plus Photos, Articles and Other Pogo Memorabilia from the Pages of The Okefenokee Star [Paperback]

Selby Kelly (Author, Editor), Bill Crouch Jr. (Editor), Garry Trudeau (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (November 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671427962
• ISBN-13: 978-0671427962
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #419,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars I GO POGO!, November 11, 2003

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This review is from: The Best of Pogo: An Exuberant Collection of Walt Kelly's Immortal Cartoons Plus Photos, Articles and Other Pogo Memorabilia from the Pages of The Okefenokee Star (Paperback)

If you have been a long time fan of POGO or just finding it for the first time ;you will find this a wonderful book.It is a good resource covering a bit of everything about the strip as well as Walt Kelly.The great age of comics spanned about 4 decades,in my opinion,from the 30's to the 70's.There is nothing scientific about my defining either what were the comics or when they started.I was born in the mid-thirties;so found those strips in full blossom when I started to read.Through that period virtually everyone ,from kids to seniors,read the comics and even those who didn't would have known about the characters and goings on.This all sort of petered out in the late 60's and early 70's.
Just to call to mind a few of my favorites:Dick Tracy,Little Orphan Annie,Li'L Abner.Donald Duck,Flash,Terry and the Pirates,Prince Valiant,Popeye, Gordon,Superman,Blondie,and of course POGO.
It is a real treat to find a book like this one to bring back old memories and hours of enjoyment.The comic sections are now but a shadow of the past and about all I follow today is Doonsbury.
I may sound a little sad as I write this review,I guess that can be attributed to the reports Of the death of Art Carney coming through as I write this.
Maybe that was one of the best things about strips like POGO;you never got the blues reading him.
A little more light-hearted humor would do us all some good.