Nibblin' Desultory-Like

How can it be December already? So glad to be back online!

The early Pogo strips were so gorgeous in any number of ways. A wagon-full of thanks to DJ David B for sharing scans. I still need to tell you a bit of the history of where these came from, but I've got to get back to my deadlines.

LLK!

 

December 16, 1951

A Subversive Left-Handed Tide

Good morning world! Happy Sunday Kelly Sunday, Hun (that's not my honeybunch, it's our friend-in-Kelly in Germany).

Woosh, what I don't go through sometimes. This particular strip was in a bad way, with bad registration, ink smears from the printer plates being dirty, and excessive bleed from the other side because of too much ink penetration. The pressmen were really sloppy on this one. But it's no fun reading Pogo like that, so here ya go:

March 14, 1971

The Litter Squad is Relentless!

This arc is headin' for the finish line, but hang on, it's not over yet.

Look, look! Below! Fast acting action!

The Dread Litter Squad

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

Six Hunderd Thousand Trillion

STILL we're in the same ongoing arc. Some mighty powerful science goin' on here. And I can't swear that's Waldo the fish in Miz Beaver's arm. Waldo used to talk up a mighty storm and this fish seems mighty mute. Perhaps Waldo expired by this point. Oh don't be sad about that. Fish just don't live long away from mighty moisture.

Run Like a Summerin' Finch

I have to post the Pogo Sunday strip tonight, Saturday nite, cuz I won't be available on Sunday morning. I know how some of you beat it over here on Sunday morns, and I would hate to disappoint anyone.

Besides the usual love of Kelly's art and his characters' shenanigans, I love how the Pogo logo is nestled in the middle of that summer grass. Not many cartoonists of that era took the time to do things like that.

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

The Psychologiwockles of Marketin'

Say, y'all wouldn't be taking it for granite that Pogo Sunday strips are posted here regularly every Sunday morn, in consecutive order with color and pithy little comments 'n' everything? It's fine with me to make this an irregular monthly posting if it doesn't make any difference to anybody. I just need to know where yuh stands.

In all the Okefenokee, Churchy's histrionics are surpassed only by Albert.

The Orderly Ways of Us Elders

Yessir, Kelly is sticking to his storyline.

Rare Old Sauerkraut

I can't believe it's another Sunday. Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

All Kinds Laws

Yep, the story is still amblin' and ramblin' on. Keep toonin' in.

A Indentured Servant

A old tried, true and tested joke for Kelly, at least once performed with a egg, back in the strip's younger days.

PDQ!

The continuity is saved, thanks to Jerry Keslensky, who sent over this jpeg of the missing Sunday strip. It's a photo of the original art, and boy, Grundoon is welcome any ol' time.

Jerry sends 'thanks for all you do to keep Kelly's work alive'. Well thank you Jerry and all others who have sent over contributions of material. Some of those contributions have been waiting in the wings for a WAY long time. But they will be forthcoming, I just need to catch up with life.

And thanks to everyone who 'toons in to the Whirled of Kelly!

Shootin' Dice an' Smokin' Mary-Wanna

I feel just awful in telling you that I seem to be missing the Sunday strip between this one and the last post. I really think I have it somewhere, but it is so mislaid. Argh and rowrbazzle, sorry about that.

It'll Scare the Hick Outta Him

This post is respectfully dedicated to the Governor of Colorado,

John (Hick) Hickenlooper.

Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

Sky-Doodle Like These!

And Howland was right, Kelly never did draw 82 billion turtles again.

Gotcha, Miss Ma'm'selle

Greetings to those of you out there who have a thing for Miss Ma'm'selle Hepzibah. Indeed she is one of the finer females in the history of comic strips. We see her again in a couple of strips from now. Happy Sunday, Kelly Sunday!

A Blessed Event!

Kelly neatly demonstrates the absurdity of communications media control over life, even blessed events . . . or especially blessed events.

Bird He Never Wert

Starting a new long arc, a fun one at that, that I'm calling

Churchy's Nephoo.