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...have the House set the limit, and the Senate will follow that discipline, and then we can call the President into line. I have seen that power exercised by the House. I have seen it exercised within the Senate. In the words of Walt Kelly's Pogo, 'We met the enemy...
Peterson was well received by the crowd. He punctuated his speech with anecdotes and concluded to a standing ovation. In one of his humorous asides, he described his role in a "Pogo for President" riot in the Square during his undergraduate years...
...think you are wrong when you say that the Agnew Great Dane-hyena in Pogo wears the uniform of a Greek colonel. Look again, and you may find that his attire more closely resembles Nixon's little joke on us all: the new White House guard uniforms, which were introduced...
While the political spectrum of the regular comic strips ranges from the moderately liberal (Pogo) to the arch-conservative (Little Orphan Annie), a relatively new phenomenon, underground comics, is pursuing radical political and sexual themes that their aboveground brothers would never dare to touch. Begun in the mid-'60s, the undergrounds, or head comic books, such as Zap and Despair and strips in papers like the Berkeley Barb and Manhattan's East Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts...
Walt Kelly, still one of the best cartoonists, is a more solid expert on the genre. "A comic strip is like a dream," Turtle tells Bear in Pogo. "A tissue of paper reveries. It gloms an' glimmers its way thru unreality, fancy an' fantasy." To which Bear naturally responds: "Sho' 'nuff?" Sho' 'nuff. · Gerald Clarke