A Bit of Whimsical Instruction

Hope y'all had a decent & happy April Fool . . .

April 1, 1962

Where's Your National Pride?

March 25, 1962

Pogo's House is Got a Leak in It

Back for a while with AU-thentic vintage/original tear sheet scans, thanks to David Burd for sharing the Tony Peters collection. I jes' loves the 1952 vintage!

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

September 21, 1952

Trump of Doom

And we thought Kelly wouldn't be making a comment on the current election — this an unretouched panel from days of yore.

Din't Name this the Grizzly Flats Fer Nothin'

And the continuity keeps careening along!

Note that Kimbo Catt is based on Ward Kimball, Kelly's fellow animator and buddy from Disney days.

June 29, 1952

Nephew Barberry Got a Pointy Quality

Yay, it's a landslide! Continuity wins! If only all voting could be this simple and dignified! As a bonus feature, I'll try posting these fill-ins every couple of days for a while, so as to hurry back to vintage newspaper tear sheets!

Pogophiles are great people! LLK!

June 22, 1952

I is Right Be-HOOG!

That footnote is the best footnote of all time!

June 15, 1952

Hurdy McGurdy Hoofaraw

I just have to imagine that, all those years ago, Kelly had a grand time as he traipsed through each panel, being silly and sassy, writing and drawing as he pleased, making it up as he went.

June 8, 1952

Figgly Mortis, Sir

We're missing a strip from the Tony Peters collection, so here's a fill in, for all you completists out there.

June 1, 1952

Perfessional Duty Calls!

These boys are always doin' something re-dickledockle! This is a fine looking Sunday strip from so long ago, thanks to David Burd and the Tony Peters Collection! One of these times I'll take the time to tell you about that collection.

By the way, I dedicate this Sunday strip to Larry Kuenning, who took the time to write a nice email with some information. Thanks Larry!

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

May 25, 1952

Is That Ol' Lady Sneaking' Up On Me Again?

Good ol' Kelly shenanigans! LLK

May 18, 1952

A Old Negative Proverb Somewheres

Kelly could make each and every panel fun to look at and read, which is of course the objective of a master cartoonist, Kelly being strip-meister of them all.

Long Live Kelly

May 11, 1952

No Room in this Perfession for Quackery

Sorry it's taken me so long to post up another vintage Pogo strip, but life's got all kinds of DIS-tractions, don't it? 

This Sunday strip isn't part of my favorite arc, but it's Kelly, it's vintage and it's original Sunday color. Good enough for me, sez I.

Besides, when this was published I was just 2 days from entering this ol' world.

And HAPPY (as happy as it can be, under the circumstances) 

103rd BIRTHDAY, WALT KELLY! 

May 4, 1952

Fits of Foolish Glee, Hooray for Spring in '73

Here again is a two fer one posting of 1973 strips recycled from a decade earlier in 1963, as confirmed by our Friend-in-Kelly, Hun.

Only two tiers, but better than nothing, sez I.

 January 7, 1973

January 14, 1973

A Tree Nobly and Gorgeously Trimmed

That second panel has probably perty close the smallest size Kelly's ever drawn any of his characters.

December 20, 1970

Gnakwoort!

I regret that the color (and lack of color) is screwy on this page. It shows the little regard that pressmen had for the comics by 1970. They probably said, "Eh, no one notice or care if we don't finish this. This'll just be trash in a couple of days", not knowing that 46 years later people all around the world DO notice and DO care.

December 13, 1970

A Lot to be Said for a Year What Ends with Christmas

I like the half-page 3-tiered format.

And just so you don't panic, 11-22 and 11-29 

have been shown here previously. 

December 6, 1970

What a Ordeal!

I only had time to do some color correction on this weeks's Sunday strip, no time to fix the bleed through from the back side. But I'd rather post now than later, so here ya go (ooo, all the way from 1964, from my earliest era of cutting and saving strips).

March 1, 1964

Miz Mama Q. Bear

Sorry I didn't have time to fully clean this tearsheet up from its printing woes, but I got most of it done to be presentable/savable. 

I'm very busy with projects, one of which is my KickStarter campaign to print a book of my art. I'm hoping some of you may want a book of my art by pledging for one. But you would have to do so by February 14, when my campaign ends. At that point, if I haven't raised the full amount of my goal to pay for printing, then I get nothing. Right now I need every last pledge I can get. Click here for details of the book, and I hope you join in!

In the meantime, Kelly is still carrying us through Spring Cleaning...

February 21, 1971

CRORK!

Sorry about missing last week's post. I've been totally tied up with the KickStarter campaign for a book of my artwork. I was hoping some of you might want to pledge a modest amount to get a copy of said book. One of you has. Anyone else interested? More information on the book by clicking here.

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!