Word: idyl
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Okeefenokee is an idyl, rather than a satirist's world. There is a lovely radiant idleness about all those scenes which show the characters lazily fishing, or sleeping on a raft--"The S.S. Kenneth G." What shapes the boundaries of the idyl is a distrust of all the official frauds and postures that keep the real world together, all the speeches and slogans and generals and college songs and national anthems and figures like the Minute Man and Senators. The termite walking along with Pogo states Okefenokee's view of matters pithily--"It'll be a long time afore they...
...characters in Pogo--and they are the best developed and most consistent in any comic strip--lobby in The Black Book for an idyl and a humorous view of life; just as the characters in other common strips lobby, with terrible earnestness, for their own interests. You know, Buz Sawyer for the Navy, Steve Canyon for the Air Force, Little Orphan Annie for the Jack Acids and Goldwatery cranks. With the Black Book to hearten it, the Pogo lobby will continue to support...
...receive: mother love. He moves into her flat and briskly "takes' her in 'and." Runs her up some baby clothes, starts her eating properly for two, goes to the clinic for a stack of diapers and a doll to practice on. But all too soon the idyl ends. The old hen comes home to roost, the flit flies the coop, the heroine is left to hatch a hopeless future...
Jules proposes. Kathe accepts. Abruptly the adolescent idyl becomes a domestic comitragedy. Jules is the eternal youth, passive and innocent. Kathe is the eternal feminine, passionate and cunning...
...reluctant socialites on an abortive, civilization-fleeing cruise to the Windward Islands; of a heart attack, in Winchendon, Mass. Proclaimed Sullivan, as the schooner Blue Goose glided into the horizon: "We're fed up [with society]. We are tired of pretense and the false way of life." The idyl lasted six months...