Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.

As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning.

A response to Time magazine's cover story of 8 April 1966, which asked, 'Is God Dead?' This, in turn, came from Nietzsche's famous quote, 'God is dead.' It appears on page 96, the final panel in The Pogo Poop Book (1966).

God is not dead - He is merely unemployed.

The Jack Acid Society Black Book (1960).

Kelly noted that the shooters were not lunatic-fringe segregationists, then added the aside in a footnote.įor the end is never new: you need a friend

Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959) an aside while recounting the 1954 shooting in the US Congress public-viewing gallery.

Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.

Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959), p.

Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name ' Armistice Day.' Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special.Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent. Kelly's sly humor and flair for creative language-replete with malapropisms and nonsense verse - retain their imaginative verve for comics enthusiasts of the twenty-first century.Quotes We have met the enemy and he is us. Eisenhower's 'I Like Ike' slogan and provided real-life fans with a write-in candidate. Their rallying cry, 'I Go Pogo,' parodied Dwight D. This compilation features comics from the election year of 1952, during which Pogo's neighbors encouraged the reluctant possum to run for president. Even readers too young to appreciate the strip's satirical elements were charmed by the eccentric creatures and their offbeat wordplay.

Kind-hearted Pogo Possum headed the crew, which included intellectual Howland Owl exuberant Albert Alligator poetic mud turtle Churchy LaFemme romantic hound dog Beauregard Bugleboy and other impish personalities.

A gifted cartoonist who began his career at Walt Disney Studios, Kelly explored the virtues and follies of human nature with a lively cast of Okefenokee Swamp critters. Starting in 1948, Walt Kelly's newspaper-based comic strip Pogo lampooned sociopolitical issues from the Red Scare to the environmental movement. 'A true natural genius of comic art.' - Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey

Gone Pogo by Walt Kelly