After reading through the just released second volume of Alan Moore’s “The Saga of Swamp Thing” I naturally felt inclined to reread some of Walt Kelly’s Pogo. I have one tattered barely held together copy of a Simon & Schuster reprint book from the 70s that my dad gave me, The Impollutable Pogo. I enjoyed it as I knew I would and it got me looking into the upcoming Complete editions that Fantagraphics are working on. But I hope they don’t reprint all the strips and call that good. In the old reprint books, Walt Kelly added extra panels that were often just an additional gag continuing a joke past the space he had available in the newspaper strip. It would be a shame if The Complete Pogo missed out on all this additional great work!
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