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Hey, you know what's coming this month? Churchy La Femme, star turtle of Walt Kelly's Pogo does, and it finally crossed my mind to try drawing him for the first time in like four years. I have somehow failed to get any better at it, but hey, you don't try drawing, you don't get drawing. It is the first time I've tried drawing me with a Pogo character though. There's a lot of licks I took from the Rackety-Coon Chile in this design but mostly I like the way those forelegs drape over the log.
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hey KT, so do you still tawk phunny? :)
... I don't know, I haven't knoticed KT talking all that peculiarly.
One known problem with getting Pogo the appreciation it deserves is just how largely incomplete the preservation of the whole thing is; I compared the collection of old paperbacks I have with the Complete Syndicated Strips books I own (nowhere near all eight of the 11 planned volumes, sadly), and the difference in both what's present and how it's presented is like night and day; entire strips missing in the paperbacks, new s done up to fill gaps in what was never intended as a series of uninterrupted longer-form comics, no Sunday strips, etc.
Like, man. Even Peanuts had to go through a process of finding all the strips that slipped through the cracks in the first run of paperbacks, and that's a well-loved strip with a ton of adaptations into other media.
Pogo? We're still trying to find the rest of the little guy's strips.
I don't disagree with you, but man would that be hard to pull off. XD
I do feel like it's only a matter of time before Pogo gets rediscovered, though. Ours is a zeitgeist in desperate need of swamp-dwelling goobers who somehow time and again manage to pull off being the Marx Brothers, scathing political commentators, and thoughtful philosophers within the same storyline, sometimes even the same .
I'm hoping there's going to be a fresh era of Pogo appreciation, but it's hard to forecast these things. I am glad I can at least point people to the library and they can see a good representative slice of the comics. But someone, the Kelly estate or one of the main comic strip sites, rerunning a strip-a-day would make a huge difference.