Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Pogo</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1953-04-22
name: label: graphic artist
content: Kelly, Walt
label: publisher
content: Post Hall Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Pogo</i> comic strip shows Albert Alligator bemoaning the fact that Houn’Dog probably won’t listen to him or help him.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Walt Kelly (1913-1973) began working for Walt Disney Studios in 1935. He contributed to animated productions such as <i>Fantasia</i> and <i>Dumbo.</i> After World War II Kelly became the art editor for the <i>New York Star</i> and revived his early 1940s character Pogo for a daily strip, which premiered in 1949. He continued drawing the strip until his death in 1973.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pogo</i> (1948-1975, 1989-1993) first appeared in comic books, such as </i>Animal Comics,</i> beginning in 1942. It was a comic strip about the adventures of an opossum. In addition to Pogo Possum, the strip’s cast included a crew of animals, such as Albert Alligator and Howland Owl, who all spoke in a dialect. The subject matter of the strip occasionally included political commentary. <i>Pogo</i> was discontinued in 1975, revived in 1989, and finally canceled permanently in 1993.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mr. Allen Bernfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.23933
label: catalog number
content: 23933
label: accession number
content: 316348
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.3 cm x 43.3 cm; 5 5/8 in x 17 1/16 in