Other Kelly Pogo postings on this blog include “Floyd the Flea is lost at sea!” from Pappy's #756, “A couple of miles of jollity,” from Pappy's #567, and “Cinderola and the Three Bears” from Pappy's #483.
From Pogo #2 (1950), by Walt Kelly:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Number 1182: “Chilluns ought to be seed and not hearn!”
Other Kelly Pogo postings on this blog include “Floyd the Flea is lost at sea!” from Pappy's #756, “A couple of miles of jollity,” from Pappy's #567, and “Cinderola and the Three Bears” from Pappy's #483.
From Pogo #2 (1950), by Walt Kelly:
I never thought about Lewis Carrol in relation to Kelly, but, you're right, there is a similarity.
ReplyDeleteYou know what else Pogo is similar to? Winnie-the-Pooh. I don't mean Disney's version, but A.A. Milne's original books. There's the same crazy type of conversation.
Oh, Kelly's whimsicallities was at they height this chere periodle time.
ReplyDeleteKelly was just absolutely in command of funny animal humor (and political humor, later.)
ReplyDeleteNote that unlike most comedy stories, they never get to "hijinks", the story never has to go to a larger crazy -- often convoluted -- story to be funny. They basically talk. It's really marvelous.
Gumba, I agree about the lack of real hijinks and emphasis on conversation in Kelly's work. My understanding is that for the comic books Kelly would do his writing and drawing on the boards, making it up as he went along. It might be why there is a story there, but unlike someone like Carl Barks, who was a gag man, wrote a script and followed a logical sequence to the end, Kelly's stories tend to wander around a bit before tying themselves up for a finish.
ReplyDeleteKirk, you caught me, friend. I have never read any of the Winnie-the-Pooh books. I have read all the available Kelly over the past fifty years, and have even read Lewis Carroll...but no Pooh books.
ReplyDeleteThomas, whimsy and whimsicalities are two words I'd definitely use to describe Kelly's stories.
ReplyDeleteKelly makes my face, my brain and my gut smile. That's my review of Walt Kelly, in-depth as it gets.
ReplyDeleteJeffy, a gut-smile! That is happiness indeed. I like your review very much, and my gut is grinning from rib to rib right now.
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