The Okefenokee Star

The Okefenokee Star was a fan zine devoted to the comic strip Pogo and it's creator Walt Kelly.
It lasted for seven issues. The content consisted mainly of illustrations by Walt Kelly, pictures and strips from "Pogo" and recollections of Kelly from colleagues and friends. Kelly's widow Selby Kelly was a recurring collaborator and the whole project involved many people, such as comics connoisseur Bill Blackbeard and others.https://seriewikin.serieframjandet.se/index.php/The_Okefenokee_Star
In 1982, Simon and Schuster published Best of Pogo: Collected from the Okefenokee Star (accessed June 27/2024) (archive link), written by Bill Crouch and Shelby Kelly (with a foreword from Gary Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury), which collected material from the zine. 
==Issue #1==
Spring 1977. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr.
Contents:
Reprints of Pogo comic strips.
==Issue #2==
1978. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr.
Contents:
Reprints of Pogo comic strips.
==Issue #3==
1979. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr.
Contents:
Reprints of Pogo comic strips plus a wide range of reviews and articles about Kelly and his possumPogo The Okekenokee Star Vol 1 Num 3 customer review at Bud's Art Books (via Wayback Jun 27/24).
File:OKS 3 interior 1.jpg|Issue #3 interior
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File:OKS 3 back cover.jpg|Issue #3 back cover, with the famous Pogo quote: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
==Issue #4==
October 1979. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr. 50 pages, black and white with colour front and back covers.
Contents"Pogo Okefenokee Star" at MyComicShop.com (via Wayback Jun 27/24):
Pogo reprints and rare Walt Kelly art, reprints of MAD magazine Pogo parodies (by Wally Wood), an article about "Pogo In the Underground," featuring very hairy photos of Sergio Aragones, Harvey Kurtzman, and Vaughn Bode; plus two reprinted articles by Kelly.
==Issue #5==
January 1980. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr. 36 pages, black and white with colour front and back covers. This issue was authorised by Walt Kelly's Estate and copyright to them.
Contents:
Book has numerous full page black & white drawings by Kelly to be colored in. Also included is a 4 page bio of the characters in the strip titled " An Introduction to the Okefenokee Swamp" from Pogo's POV. plus reprints in black & white of several Sunday strips, "Pogo's Primer for Parents" and "Walt Kelly's Mother Goose".
==Issue #6==
June 1980. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr. 48 pages, black and white with colour front and back covers. 
Contents:
Comic strip reprints from 1949, 1964, and 1968, plus the music and lyrics to "Go Go Pogo," and various news articles about Pogo and Walt Kelly.
==Issue #7==
June 1982. Published by Swamp Yankee Studios and edited by Bill Crouch Jr. 48 pages, black and white with colour front and back covers. Subtitled "The Having A Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here Issue".
==External Links==
*Mike Lynch Cartoons: William "Bill" Crouch 1945-2011
*New York Times: Pogo Comes To Bridgeport
==References==
Category:Comics Zines
Category:1977 Zines
Category:1970s Zines
Category:1980s Zines