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...Star was not the first paper to find that Pogo's pals are as loyal and vociferous as L'il Abner's. After only 14 months of syndication, Pogo is appearing in 126 U.S. newspapers. A current poll by the Saturday Review of Literature shows Pogo is in seventh place among comic strips, ahead of Terry & the Pirates, just behind Steve Canyon...
Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
Creator of Pogo is tall, moonfaced Walter Kelly, 37, who has a quick ear for fantastic word twists and a gentle eye for the gentler foibles of mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...
Pits & Pie. Pogo, which frequently takes a poke at U.S. manners & morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mam'selle Hepzibah, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typical Pogo style: "Oh, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they...
...Pogo, which now pays Kelly about $25,000 a year, has so far turned away from the blandishments of toy manufacturers, book publishers, etc. Pogo and his pals have no greater ambition than Horrors Greeley, the freckled cow, who meanders westward as she sings: "Oh, give me a home 'tween Buffalo an' Rome, where the beer in the cantaloupe...