Golly, Solly’s cold, and so’s old Lou.
Always the classics for the holiday. Be well and be safe and God bless us , everyone.
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Dennis O’Neil: Santa
Let us forego our consideration of the green unicorn problem and, obeying the dictates of the season, direct our attention to that jolly old elf, Santa Claus. First, we’ll follow that which is not exactly required but is nonetheless highly recommended and seek to link the elf to comic books, this allegedly being a column…
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Mike Gold: How To Read American English Comics
When I stop to think about it – and, obviously, I just did – it’s a miracle I’ve learned how to write and speak American English… at least to the extent that I have. Like a great many comic book fans, I was a precocious reader. This was long before The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy…
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John Ostrander: Newspapers and their Great Comics
I’m a fossil. I know it. Proof positive: I read the daily newspaper. Not on a pad or tablet or my computer, I go out and actually buy the blamed thing. I read it during breakfast. Yes, I still get a certain percentage of my news from the computer and/or Jon Stewart and The Daily…
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Mike Gold: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us
A great many idioms have their roots planted firmly in the comics media, and to the present generation there is none more vital than Walt Kelly’s famous phrase that occupies the headline space above. Kelly, in case you didn’t know (and shame on you for that), was the cartoonist who created, wrote and drew the…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “The Pogo Special Birthday Special”
A slightly less conventional (and certainly less played) Christmas special for you– from 1969, we bring you The Pogo Special Birthday Special, which also works as a holiday special for Valentine’s Day, Harbor Day, the fourth of July, and the entire month of Octember. And it’s a Christmas special too? Well, any special which has…
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Yoe goes Pogo
Our pal Craig "Modern Arf" Yoe has posted a scan of the very first Pogo comic strip over on his website. He does this ahead of Fantagraphics’ forthcoming Pogo reprint series, which will be a companion to their Peanuts, Popeye and Dennis programs (sounds like a law firm). The last time – actually, the only…
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Triskadecaphobes unite!
Egads! Friday the thirteenth actually comes on a Friday this month! (POGO and all related characters © 2007 OGPI)
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Bone go Pogo!
Fantagraphics has announced it will be relaunching a Complete Pogo series with cartoonist (and Walt Kelly admirer) Jeff Smith as series and book-by-book designer. Tom Spurgeon reports the series "will be released on a roughly annual basis" with the first volume appearing this coming October.
