The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Pogo is a pleasant kind of possum. The star of Walt Kelly’s comic strip (syndicated in 519 papers), is a wide-eyed, ingenuous little critter without a contentious bone in his body, and so. by and ...

What was it about Pogo that kept my dad coming back after long days spent trying to squeeze a profit from a small business? When he sank into the evening embrace of his easy chair, it was always Walt ...

POGO THROUGH THE WILD BLUE WONDER: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 Fantagraphics. 290 pp. $39.99. ISBN 978-1560978695 By Walt Kelly For years devotees of Walt Kelly’s immortal “Pogo” ...

WALT KELLY’S POGO: THE COMPLETE DELL COMICS: VOLUME 1 By Walt Kelly Hermes Press, $50, 304 pages WALT KELLY’S POGO: THE COMPLETE DELL COMICS: VOLUME 2 By Walt Kelly Hermes Press, $60, 240 pages When ...

So commented Walt Kelly, the genius behind “Pogo,” one of the all-time great newspaper comic strips featuring both satire and wordplay. Pogo Possum, Churchy LaFemme, Porky Pine and the rest of the ...

For the past three years thousands of American have been picking up their newspapers and turning to the comic section. After a chuckle filled five minutes in the heart of the Okefenokee swamp, they ...

When the Washington Star juggled its comic strips recently to make room for a new one, the editors worried not a bit about dropping an odd little strip from the top of the page. Its name: Pogo. But ...

Long ago, before there was any such creature as Doonesbury, there was Pogo. He hid out on the comic pages like Puck among lumberjacks, a creature of wisdom and whimsy. He and his fellow “screetures” ...

Great news for fans of Walt Kelly (like me). Fantagraphics Books has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series of Walt Kelly’s classic POGO comic strip. The first volume will appear in ...