The Pogo Fan Club has been around since 1984, although for the first three years it was primarily a small mailing list with limited distribution. Since 1987, it has increased its membership to about 1500 worldwide, with members throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. We operate with the permission of the Walt Kelly Estate, and the FMM editor, Steve Thompson, is working with the Kelly family on a book-length biography of Pogo's creator. Because of this close connection, we have often been able to not only reprint very scarce and hard to find items, but have also uncovered and published previously unknown and unpublished items. We also traced and reprinted a children's book which Kelly illustrated under a pseudonymn in the 1940s.
Future issues promise more of the same.
All members and subscribers receive a limited edition button which is unavailable anywhere else. The Pogo Fan Club holds one formal convention per year, as part of Pogofest in Waycross Georgia in late October. We also have a booth as part of Chicago Comicon, carrying not only a large selection of Kelly material, but classic comic strip material from the last 100 years. A Retrospective on Fifty Years. Because it also includes previously unpublished material, the authors guarantee that everyone will find material they haven't seen before.