Status Updates From Pogo: The Complete Syndicat...

'I've had chicken dinners with more brains 'n what you got.'

'You liked it?'

'Yes...tell it again,'

'No...it's like a political speech...gaudy in its way, but filled with 18 karats of nothing.'

He tole me we ain't got a free press in this country...'why, them papers costs up to a dime apiece...' He says, 'Call that free?'

'In my country,' he says, 'there's just one paper. Not a lot of opposin' views..A man knows what to think...' 'Yeh,' I says, 'But even so they charges money for it...'

Pogo might be one of the best drawn strips ever, but it's also among the hardest to read. If English isn't your mother's tongue, that is. Sometimes I just don't get what the characters are talking about - or understand what they're saying in the first place. 😓