#Dibble dabble dandy series

Kelly said he used animals - '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. Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in 1941 for issue #1 of Dell's Animal Comics, in the story 'Albert Takes the Cake.' 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. 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. was born in Philadelphia on August 25, 1913, though his family moved to Bridgeport when he was only 2. 14.2 Pogo books released by other publishers.

14.1 The 45 Pogo books published by Simon & Schuster.7.1 'We have met the enemy and he is us.'.6.4 Backlash, censorship and 'bunny strips'.The strip earned Kelly a Reuben Award in 1951.

#Dibble dabble dandy series

The same series of strips can be enjoyed on different levels by both young children and savvy adults. Pogo combined both sophisticated wit and slapstick physical comedy in a heady mix of allegory, Irish poetry, literary whimsy, puns and wordplay, lushly detailed artwork and broad burlesque humor. Set in the Okefenokee Swamp of the southeastern United States, the strip often engaged in social and political Satire through the adventures of its anthropomorphic funny animal characters. Pogo is the title and central character of a long-running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly (1913–1973) and distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate. Simon & Schuster, Fantagraphics Books, Gregg Press, Eclipse Comics, Spring Hollow Books