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We go Pogo : Walt Kelly, politics, and American satire / Kerry D. Soper.
Van Pelt Library PN6727.K4 Z87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soper, Kerry.
- Series:
- Great comics artists
- Great comics artists series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kelly, Walt.
- Pogo (Comic strip).
- Cartoonists--United States.
- Cartoonists.
- United States.
- Satire in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Walt Kelly, politics, and American satire
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
- Summary:
- A critical appreciation of the life's work of a great comic strip artist
- Walt Kelly (1913-1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. His long-running Pogo newspaper strip has been cited by modern comics artists and scholars as one of the best ever. Cartoonists Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Jeff Smith (Bone), and Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) have all cited Kelly as a major influence on their work. Alongside Uncle Scrooge's Carl Barks and Krazy Kat's George Herriman, Kelly is recognized as a genius of "funny animal" comics.
- We Go Pogo is the first comprehensive study of Kelly's cartoon art and his larger career in the comics business. Author Kerry D. Soper examines all aspects of Kelly's career-from his high school drawings; his work on such animated Disney movies as Dumbo, Pinocchio, and Fantasia; and his 1930s editorial cartoons for Life and the New York Herald Tribune. Soper taps Kelly's extensive personal and professional correspondence and interviews with family members, friends, and cartoonists to create a complex portrait of one of the art form's true geniuses. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Walt Kelly's biography and a general history of Pogo
- Comedy and satire in Pogo
- Walt Kelly, pragmatic auteur
- Representations of race, and borrowings from African American folk forms in Kelly's work
- The aesthetics of Pogo
- Walt Kelly, mid-century poplorist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781617032837
- 1617032832
- 9781617032844
- 1617032840
- 9781617032851
- 1617032859
- OCLC:
- 756837096
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