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A review by professorfate
Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder by Walt Kelly
4.0
My dad was a huge fan of "Pogo". During the holidays, he would always be singing a Pogo-ized carol, like "Deck us all with Tom and Charlie...". Pogo was before my time, so I had never read it. I have been on a comic-strip tear for a while now, reading treasuries of "Pearls Before Swine", "FoxTrot" and most recently "Krazy Kat". When I saw that Fantagraphics was putting out compilations of "Pogo," I thought I'd try it. And I enjoyed this volume.
Since the comic strip (or at least the ones in this volume) were from 1949 and 1950, I didn't get all of the references (I will admit, though, that I got a lot more than I thought I would). Fortunately, there is a section in the back that explains them.
I've already got volume 2, and I'm sure I'll be reading it at some point.
Since the comic strip (or at least the ones in this volume) were from 1949 and 1950, I didn't get all of the references (I will admit, though, that I got a lot more than I thought I would). Fortunately, there is a section in the back that explains them.
I've already got volume 2, and I'm sure I'll be reading it at some point.