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Little Orphan Annie's blunked-out eyeballs

Tonight I attended Augustine Christian Academy's middle-school production of Annie (Jr.). As is always the case at ACA, the production was characterized by excellence and a lot of heart. It hit me that no one involved in the production (except the director) would have any awareness of the comic strip...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2023 11:31 PM

Blog roundup 2013/01/28

Notes hither and thither: If you're a fan of beautiful cartoon art, you should make at least a weekly visit to Whirled of Kelly, which features the art work of Walt Kelly, most famous for the comic strip Pogo. Blogger Thomas Haller Buchanan has been running a series of Sunday...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 28, 2013 12:14 AM

Churchy LaFemme's Friday the 13th

It was a running gag in Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo. Friday the 13th was a baleful day, particularly when it fell on a Friday: Via Blog d'Elisson Here's the Friday the 13th sequence from the summer of 1965, via Whirled of Kelly, a blog devoted to the art of...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 13, 2012 12:22 PM

Friday the 13th come on a Friday this month

The image above, the August 9, 1965, Pogo is from the Cartoon Art Originals website, which has this strip and original Walt Kelly art for many other Pogo daily strips, Sunday strips, and paperbacks....

Posted by Michael Bates on February 13, 2009 11:29 PM

"Naturally, I disguised it a li'l"

I posted this cartoon excerpt, from Walt Kelly's Pogo Peek-A-Book, about a year ago. It's a favorite moment in a favorite tale, "The Man from Suffern on the Steppes or 1984 and All That: A Russian Tale of Madisonav," a simultaneous spoof of Soviet bureaucracy and American advertising. I've been...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 4, 2009 8:03 PM

"As honest as the law allows"

Here's the last strip in the series. Albert's done with his taxes. Hope you are too. Pogo by Walt Kelly, April 14, 1956. Last in a series of 5. Click here for previous comic, click here to go back to the beginning....

Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2005 11:34 PM

"I knowed they was a catch"

The IRS never makes it easy.... Pogo by Walt Kelly, April 13, 1956. Y'all enjoying these? Let me hear from you. By the way, the distortion and greyness in the last frame is the result of scanning out of a book. I'm learning how to use the GIMP, and I...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2005 7:50 AM

Creative accounting

Another Pogo strip to help ease your tax preparation woes. I'm done, but Albert is still figgerin'. I needed tax advice this good. Pogo by Walt Kelly, April 12, 1956. Alas, most Pogo books are out of print, but you can find some new and used by searching for "Walt...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 14, 2005 12:24 PM

A li'l' innocent cheatin'

Pogo by Walt Kelly, April 11, 1956. Note the correct use of apostrophes in the word "LI'L'." This is comic 2 in a series of 5. Click for previous, next comic....

Posted by Michael Bates on April 13, 2005 10:28 PM

Tax day approaches

I'm going to be a little busy for the next day or two... Pogo, by Walt Kelly, April 10, 1956. First of five. Click for next comic....

Posted by Michael Bates on April 12, 2005 11:13 PM