This book has been read but is in excellent condition. Unstated edition, stated First Printing with no number line. Condition: Light rubbing at spine extremities, small chip at spine head, spine sunned else very good.
Malarkey") and the sectarian and dogmatic behavior of Communists in the form of two comically doctrinaire cowbirds. Kelly used the strip in part as a vehicle for his liberal and humanistic political and social views and satirized, among other things, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist demagogy (in the form of a shotgun-wielding bobcat named "Simple J. The principal characters were Pogo the Possum, Albert the Alligator, Churchy LaFemme, a turtle, Howland Owl, Beauregard (Houndog), Porkypine, and Miz Mamzelle Hepzibah, a French skunk. He received the Reuben Award for the series in 1951. The individual strips were collected into at least 20 books edited by Kelly. The Pogo comic strip was syndicated to newspapers for 26 years. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. Walter Crawford Kelly Jr, or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers.
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