When I was a child, I can remember looking at the Sunday Pogo strips with my dad reading them and the rest of the comics to me. It was a Sunday ritual until I learned to read and then I insisted on reading the comics myself. As long as I can remember Pogo, Albert, Deacon Muskrat, Howland, Churchy, and Porkypine have been part of my life. I have vague memories of going around Boston to complete my father’s collection of the figures that I think were attached to soap. I didn’t find out what Churchy’s name meant until my High School French Class. My father had most of the books. My favorite was the Puce Stamp Catalogue. It wasn’t until college when I reread the books I had loved as a child that I got what Walt Kelly was trying to do and what his political views were. My father still collects the odd Pogo item and was part of the book club that released the books in hardcover. The Pogo record is now out on CD and it is great to hear Walt Kelly singing I go Pogo again. I spun myself dizzy to that song when I was a kid. When I went back to visit my parents last time, I spent some time with Pogo and the gang and I, again, fell under the spell of that very down to earth Possum who found himself in over his head but always took the right way out of the situation. G-d bless you Walt and thanks for your world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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