Books with author Kelly Ward

Presents the years 1959 and 1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip. This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere―with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it's election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy. His campaign slogan, "Jes' Fine," sparks political debates about just who can and should be president ― maybe even a woman! Black & white and color illustrations throughout

This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere—with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it's election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidentialcandidate.

Publisher's Note: "We had a secretary here, briefly, who answered the phone one day when Walt Kelly was calling and said in a sprightly voice, 'Yes, Mr. Kelly, is it about anything?' The same question could be applied with effect to the great majority of the 12,000 books published this year in America. Trying it on with this one, the answer appears to be, if you are in Congress or a lawyer, in the affirmative. Otherwise, yes. It isn't about everything, just some things. That's why it is called The Incompleat Pogo. The Compleat Pogo will have to wait for a few thousand years when we know the answers to everything instead of just getting around, as we are now, to a foggy idea of what some of the questions are."

Presents the years 1957-1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip. This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere―with all 208 Sunday strips from these four years presented in lush full color for since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 5, the Okefenokee gang try to dig a canal to compete with the Suez. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars. Black & white and color illustrations throughout

"A true natural genius of comic art." — Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey Starting in 1948, Walt Kelly's newspaper-based comic strip Pogo lampooned sociopolitical issues from the Red Scare to the environmental movement. A gifted cartoonist who began his career at Walt Disney Studios, Kelly explored the virtues and follies of human nature with a lively cast of Okefenokee Swamp critters. Kind-hearted Pogo Possum headed the crew, which included intellectual Howland Owl; exuberant Albert Alligator; poetic mud turtle Churchy LaFemme; romantic hound dog Beauregard Bugleboy; and other impish personalities. Even readers too young to appreciate the strip's satirical elements were charmed by the eccentric creatures and their offbeat wordplay.This compilation features comics from the election year of 1952, during which Pogo's neighbors encouraged the reluctant possum to run for president. Their rallying cry, "I Go Pogo," parodied Dwight D. Eisenhower's "I Like Ike" slogan and provided real-life fans with a write-in candidate. Kelly's sly humor and flair for creative language—replete with malapropisms and nonsense verse — retain their imaginative verve for comics enthusiasts of the twenty-first century.

There are 2 books for sale: THE POGO PEEK-A-BOOK - Third Printing, SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NY 1955 - Good condition with the pages having a natural age brown tone; there is a small like age spot to the front board at the bottom edge. THE POGO STEPMOTHER GOOSE - Third Printing, SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NY 1954 - Fair++ USED condition; there is a gift inscription on the back of the first front free endpaper; the lettering to the front board has some penciling circles; a few of the pages have a curl at the very corner tips.

by Walt Kelly Walt Kelly's spirited and engaging Our Gang harkens back to the days before television, when kids spent most of their time playing outdoors, limited only by each other's imagination and ingenuity. Kelly created dozens of Our Gang stories by the end of its 59-issue run in 1949, the year he quit comics to create the immortal syndicated newspaper strip, Pogo. In Our Gang Volume 3, Kelly hits his stride in supplying eight adventures of the mainstay off-beat personas as well as other whimsical characters, from mad scientists to eccentric animals. Fantagraphics Books has lovingly restored the work from the original comic books, giving Kelly's art a new four-color splendor! With a cover by Jeff Smith!

by Walt Kelly Walt Kelly, perhaps best known for Pogo, illustrated a fifty-nine issue run of comic book stories starring the irrepressible film urchins - the "real-life" characters of MGM's durable short-film series, Our Gang (a.k.a. "The Little Rascals"). Revel in the toothy splendor of Walt Kelly's brushwork. With an introduction by film historian Leonard Maltin!

The Rascals are back in another 100-plus vintage full-color pages of rollicking comedey and high adventure. Created in 1946 and 1947, these stories show Walt Kelly refining the style that would serve him so well for his later masterpiece- Pogo.Much of this fourth volume is taken up with an extended four-part cycle of stories-almost a graphic novel, really!- in which Froggie and the Gang(including Julip the Goat) ship out with Professor Gravy on his showboat for an engagement downriver, which results (of course) in a series of action-packed adventures involving fisticuffs, gunfire, fireworks, and horse thieves. All this, plus much more mundane kid pursuits such as a hotly-contested baseball game.As always, series editor Steve Thompson is on hand to provide fascinating behind-the-scenes details on these marvelous stories. For anyone who loves those simple, innocent post-war times, the Our Gang stories are as refreshing as a 5-cent glass of lemonade on a hot summer day.