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Bookmark or Share- Bridgeport’s Walt Kelly, Creator of Pogo - Connecticut HistoryBridgeport resident Walt Kelly was the creator of Pogo, a wildly popular comic strip during the middle of the 20th century.
- Walt Kelly - WikipediaWalter Crawford Kelly Jr. (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. [2][3] He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo.
- Pogo (comic strip) - WikipediaPogo (revived as Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. 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.
- The Most Controversial Comic Strip - JSTOR DailyDuring the 1950s, Walt Kelly created the most popular comic strip in the United States. His strip was about an opossum named Pogo and his swamp-dwelling friends. It was also the most controversial and censored of its time.
- 36. “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us” - Ohio State University ...Walt Kelly’s funny animal comic strip Pogo provided a surprising, but effective, setting for his incisive political satire. During the War of 1812, the United States Navy defeated the British Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie.
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