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Pot Luck Pogo

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It's another wonderful wander through the Okeefenokee swamp with Pogo, Albert, Churchy, Miz Ma'm'selle, Deacon Mushrat, and all the other characters of Kelly's peaceful little world.

This is one of the books from the mid-50s, so it lacks the political punch of much of Kelly's later work. And, since it came out between election years, we don't get to see his wild sendups of the political pageant, either. Instead, we meander from attempts to understand Grundoon's vowel-less babbling, tall tales from a would-be woodpecker, and Sis Boombah jilted, through Mole's myopic conspiracy theories, to some Christmas deliveries to the swamp's most unloved character.

Porky asks, as he helps with the packages, "think it'll do anybody any good?" Pogo answers, "Oh, mebbe jes' only us."

That's what I love about Pogo - he's the voice of a simple, civil time. And if that time never actually existed outside of Kelly's imagined swamp, it should have.

//wiredweird

This book was wonderful (ofcourse, being Pogo, that goes without saying. What makes it one of the best is that the bats are in it and they're the funniest thing there is.

It's always a treat to find one of these old Pogo books.I followed the strip for years during High School and for a lot of years afterward.Walt Kelly,in my opinion was one of the top 10 Strip cartoon writers of all time.The Strips were followed by almost everyone from the 1930's to the 1960's. Not to know what was happening with L'il Abner,Dick Tracy,Little Orphan Annie and a whole host of characters would be like someone who doesn't know who Michael Jackson or Madonna is today.
Pogo was unique,as were most strips.Each was a creation and became a lifelong occupation for the cartoonist and storyteller that wrote and drew the strip.Today, we have the giants like Peanuts and Doonesbury,but they don't abound like they did in the old days.I believe the papers had a lot to do with the decline because they kept dropping old favorites and pushed strips with socially correct agendas and aimed at very narrow markets.Even living in a large city,I even have to resort to the Net to follow Dick Tracy,and even that is a shadow of the past since the passing of Chester Gould.
Be that as it may,this is another of Pogo,s great books.If you are new to this wonderful cast of friends,you can get a flavor of the strip from many good sites on the Web.
Pogo was always coming up with thoughtful stuff,like:

"Break out the cigars,this life is for squirrels;

We're off to the drugstore to whistle at girls."

"Wherein our men make a running start at a dead end."

"If you can't act like a GENNLEMAN,stop being a LADY."

"Lips what touches my seegars will never touch mine!."

"If they don't talk AMERICAN they is FOR'NERS,UNNERSTAND?"

And how about this bit of wisdom?

"Don't take life so seriously,folks.It ain't no-hows
permanent."

I think this a really good book. Even though you have to understand what they're
talking about because it was written 31 years before
I was born.

The funniest parsts are when the characters like
Hun'Dog,and Mole doesn't always know what is going
on.

My favorite is when Churchy butters his
arm and starts eating it and Albert ask" Why You
is run off the corn an' is eatin' on yo arm." So Churchy says, " Why not? I buttered it,Didn't I."

So I recommend this book to any one who
likes a good laugh.