A Happy New Year

Heart-felt wishes for a good year of 2019 to you all!

I hand-colored this beautiful Kelly art several years ago as part of my tribute to his 100th birthday, and, well, it kinda says it all.

Happy 1951, 1952, and 1953

Yes, I posted this first image last year, but it's too beauty to not pull up again.

Further below are New Year's Day strips from 1951, 1952, and 1953 — my three favorite years of Kelly art and story, not that all the other years weren't great. I know you've seen these before, so sue me (actually don't, I've got too much on my calendar as it is).

Above, yes, at that time Kelly was signing some funny little names — a different one per strip.

Stay 'tooned—cool stuff coming up in 2011.

Neither Storm Nor Sleet . . .

How neat that sounds on the back cover of Pogo #15, that for a mere dollar, TEN big issues of Pogo would come to your door regular-like.

Don't try sending in that subscription form though. You'd sit back and wait and wait and wait some more for that latest issue to arrive. #16 would be the last Pogo comic book to be published.

Happily though, for the next 20 years, Pogo books would come out regular-like, and Pogo Sundays and dailies would come to your door, courtesy of the paper boy.