Friday, January 15, 2010

Troop 6 7/8

Walt Kelly and Charles Schulz were mutual admirers, and Kelly many times honored Schulz and Peanuts in the Pogo strip. It may be that it's a total coincidence, but Kelly's Troop 6 7/8 looks a lot like Schulz's Beagle Scouts. I don't have the Peanuts books in my collection, so I don't know which came first, Schulz or Kelly—the bird or the egg, so to speak. I'm just guessing that Kelly was first.





2 comments:

  1. Cool post Thomas. I love the little bug guy wearing his Kaiser Wilhelm WWI spiked helmet. :)

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  2. Isn't that great? I get such a kick out of Kelly's little stuff, tucked here and there.

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