What Kinda Snore is That?

Good morning on a Sunday, Kelly Sunday. Forty five years ago this morning, Kelly once again invoked the name of Charles Schulz, who had won the NCS Reuben award the previous year and was at the top of the comic strip field. As I've said before, I think Schulz was the most oft mentioned-by-name person in the run of the Pogo strip.

Come back tomorrow for The Adventures of Peter Wheat #2.

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.