Post by mdorman

Walt Kelly's Pogo has never been collected in its entirety–something less than six years were collected by Fantagraphics in the '90s, but that was something less than it's full 24-year run.

Well, they've decided to do to Pogo what they did to Charles Schulz' Peanuts (and several other strips)–publish the whole run, in order, in a series of hardback books.

I've heard reviews of Pogo that suggested that it wasn't always as great as people remember it–and really, what is? But it's hard to ignore a newspaper comic strip that was considered threatening enough that, "his [Kelly's] phone was tapped and the US Government corresponded with a newspaper reporter who claimed that the eccentric patois Kelly created was a secret Russian code."

It's certainly a tempting option.