The reprints with minor rewording returned, continuing until Kelly's death. Kelly returned for just eight Sunday pages, from October 8 to November 26, 1972, but according to Selby was unable to draw the characters as large as he customarily did. At first, reprints, mostly with minor rewording in the word balloons, from the 1950s and 1960s were used, starting Sunday, June 4, 1972. According to Walt Kelly's widow Selby Kelly, Walt Kelly fell ill in 1972 and was unable to continue the strip. It ran continuously until (and past) Kelly's death from complications of diabetes on October 18, 1973. George Ward and Henry Shikuma were among Kelly's assistants on the strip. On May 16, 1949, Pogo was picked up for national distribution by the Post-Hall Syndicate. The first comic series to make the permanent transition to newspapers, Pogo debuted on October 4, 1948, and ran continuously until the paper folded on January 28, 1949. In his 1954 autobiography for the Hall Syndicate, Kelly said he "fooled around with the Foreign Language Unit of the Army during World War II, illustrating grunts and groans, and made friends in the newspaper and publishing business." In 1948 he was hired to draw political cartoons for the editorial page of the short-lived New York Star he decided to do a daily comic strip featuring the characters from Animal Comics. They don't hurt as easily, and it's possible to make them more believable in an exaggerated pose." Pogo, formerly a " spear carrier" according to Kelly, quickly took center stage, assuming the straight man role that Bumbazine had occupied. Kelly said he used animals-nature's creatures, or "nature's screechers" as he called them-"largely because you can do more with animals. He eventually phased humans out of the comics entirely, preferring to use the animal characters for their comic potential. Bumbazine was retired early, since Kelly found it hard to write for a human child. Both were comic foils for a young black character named Bumbazine (a corruption of bombazine, a fabric that was usually dyed black and used largely for mourning wear), who lived in the swamp. 1 of Dell's Animal Comics in the story "Albert Takes the Cake". Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in 1941 for issue No. Kelly then worked for Dell Comics, a division of Western Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin. He stayed until the animators' strike in 1941 as an animator on The Nifty Nineties, The Little Whirlwind, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon. He went to California at age 22 to work on Donald Duck cartoons at Walt Disney Studios in 1935. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, when he was only two. was born in Philadelphia on August 25, 1913. The strip earned Kelly a Reuben Award in 1951. Pogo was distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate. The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum. Pogo was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Simon & Schuster, Fantagraphics Books, Gregg Press, Eclipse Comics, Spring Hollow Books
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