The Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly debuted on October 4, 1948, in the New York Star. It ran until the paper folded in January 1949, but the strip was picked up for national distribution in May 1949. Before the strip, Kelly had written and drawn the characters in Dell comic books since 1941.

The New York Star Pogo strips are sort of like the beta strips. When it went national, Kelly started over and redrew a lot of these.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Never understood it when I was a kid and reading it in the newspapers. Then as a late teenager I read half a dozen volumes of the collected comics. Made a whole lotta sense then.

That art is so crisp, current newspaper strips have such a minimalist look

Trying to figure out life, one wormy step at a time 🐢😂 Sometimes it’s hard to tell if we’re moving forwards or backwards! 🐾 But hey, as long as we’re moving, right? 😆✨

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I go Pogo.