Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips Vol. 7: Pockets Full of Pie

by Walt Kelly, Sergio Aragonés (Foreword), Mark Evanier (Editor)

This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.

357 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2020

About the author

American animator and cartoonist best known for the classic funny animal comic strip, Pogo. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1951 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their Silver T-Square Award in 1972, given to persons having "demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession."

Reviews

[Bill Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pogo is always delightful but I have a definite bias in favor of the political strips and they're pretty thin in this volume. There are some hijinks with Khrushchev and Castro lookalikes and the inception of the Jack Acid Society but most of the episodes are gentle and mildly witty rather than sharp-edged. Still, the collection of every strip, daily and Sunday, is a wondrous undertaking and I'm here for the long haul.