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The Incompleat Pogo
Copyright © 1953, 1954, by Walt Kelly included in Walt Kellys Pogo Romances Recaptured Copyright © 1975 by Selby Kelly, executrix for the estate of Walt Kelly | |||
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1953 | Chapter 1 From Here On Down Its Uphill All the Way |
Porky: Pogo: Churchy: Owl: Churchy: Owl: Churchy: Owl: Pogo: Porky: | |
Chapter 2 Our Hero Dots One Eye and Crosses the Other, Hand Over Hand |
Churchy: Porky: Churchy: | ||
Chapter 6 Brains From Far and Wide Are Summoned to Ponder a Suicide Pack |
Albert: Pogo: | ||
Chapter 8 Brains, Size 6¼, Are Pooled to Form a Shallow But Slippery Puddle |
Albert: Porky: | Topic: | |
Pogo: Albert: Pogo: Albert: | |||
Chapter 9 A Medium Day in June Is Well Done |
Pogo: | ||
Chapter 16 The Bite of the Remedy |
Pogo: Roogey Batoon: Beauregard: Roogey Batoon: | ||
Chapter 18 Who Is Now and Ever Has Been a Member of the Tea Party? |
Pogo: Porky: | Topic: | |
Chatper 20 A Tiger Burns Bright |
Mr. Tammananny: Porky: | ||
Pogo: Porky: | Topic: | ||
Chapter 22 A Scandal for School |
Owl: Where the Bee sucks, There suck I; In a cowslips bell I lie; There I couch When Owls do cry...
Bug: Churchy: | ||
Chapter 24 Nothing Taught Here Fearlessly |
Cowbird: Owl: | Topic: | |
Chapter 26 The Carols Ground Out . . . First Bass to Short |
Porky: Rackety Coon Chile: Porky: Rackety Coon Chile: Porky: Rackety Coon Chile: Porky: | Topic: | |
Chapter 27 One Final Word Leads to Another |
Bun Rabbit: Churchy: Bun Rabbit: | ||
Bat: Bat: Bat: Bat: | Topic: | ||
July 4, 1954 | The Estate of Our Independence | In this Era of the Boomerang it is easy to counter suspicion with suspicion. It is not quite as easy to return hate for love but many of us manage it through the simple procedure of viewing all love with the suspicion reserved for the unknown. This is unfortunate because love takes many forms (not all of them immediately identifiable and therefore even more suspect). One of these forms is humor. | Topics: |
These Original Americans employed at least one comic device (a sure-fire boff) that consisted of several humorists smearing and throwing dung over some selected colleague. As humor, the act had one serious drawback in that it became impossible, eventually, to embrace the target in a show of good fellowship directly after the performance. | |||
The full import of inventing the worlds most devastating weapon was not realized until we learned that the enemy, acting like cads, had swiped the secret. Having been prepared to snigger, we are not prepared to applaud; but neither should we be ready to whimper. It is not the time for a man to demonstrate the strength of his guts with a belly-laugh, but nevertheless here is a comic situation. It is a comedy in the classic tradition, so near to tragedy that the difference is indiscernible to the participant. This classic comedy is fundamentally that of the Pompous Ass falling on his bulging behind. It is nearly always funny to the onlooker. It is seldom funny to the Pompous Ass. Like it or not, however, the joke remains . . . and it is on us. So, as we move along, we cannot care who sings our countrys songs; beneath the high notes of patriotism, we want to hear the low notes of laughter, always off-key, always true. | |||
text checked (see note) Apr 2005 |
The Pogo Sunday Parade
Copyright © 1953, 1954, 1958 by Walt Kelly included in Pogos Double Sundae Copyright © 1978 by the estate of Walt Kelly, Selby Kelly, Executrix | ||
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All in the Wash | Bug: Miz Beaver: | |
Down to Bear and Brassy Facts |
Churchy: Owl: | Topic: |
A Good Spot for a Dog |
Owl: Frog: | Topic: |
A Great Idea |
Owl: Albert: | Topic: |
text checked (see note) Apr 2005 |
The Pogo Sunday Brunch
Copyright © 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959 by Walt Kelly included in Pogos Double Sundae Copyright © 1978 by the estate of Walt Kelly, Selby Kelly, Executrix | ||
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Quo Vadis? | We are a race in search of the joke. It occurs to a few that the greatest joke in the world is life itself, which, aside from being pleasant, full of hope, fears, sustained interest and laughs, finally winds up with a thing called death. Death is an essential part of the life, like the laugh is part of the joke. It is a sort of recognizable ending. It is really one more ridiculous facet of the joke, then, that we are so intent upon reaching the last laugh that a good many of us are fooling around with all sorts of means to the end. Perhaps we should enjoy more the telling of this tale, the living of this life and not hasten the arrival of the punch line. After our learning has set fire to the fuse of ignorance and we have finally blown the world into a billion funny pieces, what are we going to do for an encore? But, enough of chuckles. Let us move into the serious part of the book. | |
A Sorry Soirée | Albert: Pogo: Albert: Pogo: Albert: | |
OAF OAKS AT HOME The sentiment of cinnamon Is synonym for sneeze. The rapid rap of rhapsody Is wrapping with the breeze. The hapless hop of hoppy-toads Doth trump each nightly tree. But of the maids I ever knew Youre ever new to me. | ||
A Corner of the Circle Around in the hoop with the loop Lies longing my heart sinking low, Wonders and magic and worries of woe With windows all waddled The sun in its tower tolls out the noon While here in the sphere All huddled befuddled with night The whoop of my heart | ||
1959 |
A BOODLE OF BOON Who loots my heart steals traveled trash For, carved upon a trunk of ash Is Floyd loves Flora, with a flash Of yesterevens balderdash. | |
text checked (see note) Apr 2005 |
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