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[Kerry D. Soper] ✓ We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire (Great Comics Artists Series) ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire (Great Comics Artists Series) Dry as a Bone "Humor can be dissected as a frog can," E.B. White once wrote, "but the thing dies in the process, and the innards are discouraging to all but the purely scientific mind." Walt Kelly gets the full-blown analytical treatment in WE GO POGO by Kerry D. Soper, and the results can be essentially summed up as 239 pages of "dead frog." The author, unfortunately, comes across as one. A Great Cartoonist Gets His Due Jeet Heer Walt Kelly was one of the greatest cartoonists that America ever
| Title | : | We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire (Great Comics Artists Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617032840 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
Cartoonists Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Jeff Smith (Bone), and Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) have all cited Kelly as a major influence on their work. Alongside Uncle Scrooge’s Carl Barks and Krazy Kat’s George Herriman, Kelly is recognized as a genius of “funny animal” comics.We Go Pogo is the first comprehensive study of Kelly's cartoon art and his larger career in the comics business. His long-running Pogo newspaper strip has been cited by modern comics artists and scholars as one of the best ever. Walt Kelly (1913-1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. Author Kerry D. Soper taps Kelly's extensive personal and professional correspondence and interivews with family members, friends, and cartoonists to create a comp
“This is the real deal! Comprehensive, serious, and full of juicy tidbits on Kelly’s life and careersome that I didn’t know, and I’m the #1 Walt Kelly fan in the universe!”Jeff Smith, creator of the comic books BONE and RASL
Dry as a Bone "Humor can be dissected as a frog can," E.B. White once wrote, "but the thing dies in the process, and the innards are discouraging to all but the purely scientific mind." Walt Kelly gets the full-blown analytical treatment in WE GO POGO by Kerry D. Soper, and the results can be essentially summed up as 239 pages of "dead frog." The author, unfortunately, comes across as one. A Great Cartoonist Gets His Due Jeet Heer Walt Kelly was one of the greatest cartoonists that America ever produced and we've long needed a smart study to gauge his achievements and place his work in context. Kerry Soper's We Go Pogo more than lives up to those demands. It explains why Kelly's Pogo made such a huge impact in the postwar years and the way the strip transformed newspaper comics, creating a new space f. "I Goper Soper" according to Frank Stoaks. Simply put Kerry D. Soper has done a great job with this book.Pogo is undoubtedly one of the great newspaper strips of the 20th century. In this book, Soper explores the work of Walt Kelly and makes a convincing case for why Pogo should be highly regarded without going into fanboy hagiography (a problem that a lot of books on comics/newspaper comics have).Since this is a boo
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