Happy Sunday!

That's a powerful scene, there on the right.

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The Rest of This Absorbant Story

March 16, 1952

Ding-Binged RIGHT We're Cold

LONG LIVE KELLY!

March 2, 1952

Pogo by Pretzel Pflug

I jes' loves it when the cast gets to wear silly hats and and act out furry tails and mess with enchanted dragons and such. This period of Kelly's work is, bar none, my favorite (even over Prehysterical Pogo). And I love seeing this stuff straight from newsprint tear sheets! 

What a treat!

February 24, 1952

For anyone interested, some of Kelly's favorite people were newspapermen, so the Hon. Felix McKnight appears to be this fellow:

A Strictly Beautifobble Thought

Such wonderful goodness straight from a newsprint scan!

February 17, 1952

Advice on Feeding Dragons

Wheeee, we're back in the Sunday strip business for some time to come! Even if they are strips you'll recognize from the Fantagraphics volumes, these are gen-you-wine tear sheet scans that you'll be seeing for weeks and months to come, thanks to the generosity of David Burd. 

David has scanned more of the early tear sheets that were originally in the collection of his friend, the late Tony Peters. I'll tell you more about that collection soon, but in the meantime, David scanned a bunch of strips in two pieces, sending them to me raw. I stitch them together and do some clean-up editing and wah-lah, we see these strips as they were seen in newspapers some 64 years ago!

At some point in the future I believe we will emerge beyond the Fantagraphics limits, but in the meantime please enjoy the color and feel of newsprint from some of Kelly's best years. And not to worry, I will still continue the run of 1965 dailies that I've been falling behind on posting.

Long Live Kelly!!!

February 10, 1952

Uncle Albert's Story Hour

I can't stay awake any longer, so I'm posting Sunday's strip on Saturday nite. This is the last of the current crop, with scans provided by DJ David B. It's so lovely to see these early strips in color. 

Next week, we'll head back to Pogo's later but still great days, with some strips from my collection.

February 3, 1952

Dragons Don't Go "Queerp!"

Kelly had a predilection for using character motifs throughout his whirled—in this case a dragon, showing up in various forms in his fairy tale comics. For years I read and reread this particular sequence in the black and white S&S reprint book, so it's a real treat to see it in newspaper color, again thanks to DJ David B.

I love the year 1952! Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!!!

January 27, 1952

Happy Year of Dragon

Kelly drew a number of dragons in his time, many small and cute. This is one 'has teeth', figuratively and literally.

If you cannot master the dragon, you must let it go . . .

Walt Kelly