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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