

It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared inAnimal Comics as a secondary player in the Albert the Alligator feature. It didn't take long until Pogo became the comic's leading character. After WI, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike. Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to makePogo an essential contribution to American intellectual comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly's scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics -- Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo -- dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays. This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Read More chevron_right
It takes about 5 Hours and 42 minutes on average for a reader to read Pogo the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
The recommended reading level for Pogo the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder is 11th Grade and Up .
Pogo the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder is 308 pages long.
Pogo the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder is book #1 in the Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Book Series and comes before Pogo the Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Bona Fide Balderdash
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