Early on, Kelly took a shine to his fractured lyrics of Deck Us All with Boston Charlie, and kept shining it up each Xmas season for more than 20 years. This was his first use of it back in 1948:
I haven't seen most of the early strips. I'm waiting on the forthcoming collection (which my fiancée preëmptively ordered for me), but its release was apparently delayed by something like a year!
My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.
I'd not seen this before, nor otherwise seen Churchy so manic! I keep laughing about it.
ReplyDeleteThey were all manic back in those days. Wasn't there one where Pogo is whangin' away on a banjo and screeching. Lotta funny slapstick back then.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen most of the early strips. I'm waiting on the forthcoming collection (which my fiancée preëmptively ordered for me), but its release was apparently delayed by something like a year!
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