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Couch Kitties: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL0lPcNwRqQ
Like Tali says, the classics never die...
Zeph ©
Sharra. Tali and the Kittehs © me. Pogo © The Walt Kelly Estate.
http://couchkitties.comicgenesis.com/
Like Tali says, the classics never die...
Zeph ©
Sharra. Tali and the Kittehs © me. Pogo © The Walt Kelly Estate. http://couchkitties.comicgenesis.com/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
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Size 1280 x 436px
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Definitely a classic. As a young child, I saw the clay-animated I GO POGO movie. In my teenage years, our local newspaper ran the revival of POGO by Larry Doyle and Neal Sternecky. That inspired me to seek out book anthologies of Walt Kelly's original strips. Looking back, that was a gateway to my furrydom ;)
I always enjoyed the way Walt Kelly would use different fonts in his character's speech balloons to indicate accents or personality traits. Try as I might, I went through all six volumes of the collected Pogo comic strips looking for an image of Ma'am Zelle Hepzibah singing, but there wasn't anything really promising. I got halfway through volume 6 when they quietly asked me to leave the bookstore.
According to Wilbur Eveland, a good friend of Kelly's, "Pogo" was popular with all kinds of people, including prison inmates. It was in tribute to them that Kelly included jail references in DUAWBC. Walla Walla, Kalamazoo, Pensacola and Louisville are the sites of state prisons. "Boston Charlie" was the name given to all guards in prisons. "Boston" may have been a throwback to the days of the original colonies. "Nora" is the cognomen given to the sexual partners of male prison inmates, and the "trolley" is the wire that convicts string between cells in order to pass notes to each other. A person in the "freezer" is in solitary confinement, so Nora was not only not communicating, he/she had been placed in solitary.
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