Probably Reading One of Our Own Pogo Books

Another lovely Kelly public service announcement 

Kelly On a Run

Kelly on a run as he rummaged around the world in the early '60s, filing reports from hither and yon. Some of his reports have been reprinted here and there, like Berlin and such, but I wonder if there are more to be found.

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Like most of us are doing these days, Pogo is reading the news (wow, from a newspaper? Are there such things anymore?). And like for most of us, it's all pretty bemildreding.

Ballad of a Hunter of Renown

Once again, Blogger is playing tricks on me so I couldn't post for several days. Things keep changing  here without my input.

Anyway, this one is fun — Kelly's first nationally published work, from St Nicholas magazine, dated November 1935, a beautiful forerunner of his concept, style and technique.

St. Nicholas magazine — November 1935

Chills or Fevers?

Sick or not, ultimately, everyone should test!

All Over the Whole Wide World

As most of you Kelly addicts, all over the whole wide world, know, Kelly did a lot of covers and some stories for Disney Dell Comics back in the '40s. He did some miscellaneous stuff like posters and house ads . . . like this one for Disney comics. It's pretty funny for an ad, somewhat like what Mad Magazine would have done, and pretty inappropriate for its racial stereotype. 

But hey, that was then, this is now.

And later, Kelly returned to the Russian steppes for Pogo.

1946 American Trade Journal

How Cheerfully He Seems to Grin

If this isn't Albert the Alligator disguised as a Crocodile, then it's a doppelgänger. We all have doppelgängers out there somewhere, don't we? Anyway, this is from a Raggedy Ann & Andy comic book, from sometime in the '40s (I just don't feel like looking it up right now).

Kelly once told me that Lewis Carroll was one of his biggest creative influences. But of course.