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pencil and ink on thin cardboard
49,5 x 17,5 cm
Daily comic strip from 11/23/1948 for "Pogo". After being fired from Disney where he worked as a designer in 1941, Kelly found work at Dell Publishing and here he created the character of Pogo, an anthropomorphic opossum who debuted in 1942 until 1947 when publication was discontinued. In 1948 Kelly became art director of the New York Star and for this newspaper he created 30 "pilot newspapers" to present the Pogo universe to the newspaper's readers. These pilot strips were all numbered and eventually published, although not in their original order. Our strip is the very rare n. 13, even though it was published as the forty-fourth Daily comic strip. Work published in the volume "Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo" by Thomas Andrae and Carsten Laqua on page 80 in 2012. On two panels. Signed and dated.
49,5 x 17,5 cm
Daily comic strip from 11/23/1948 for "Pogo". After being fired from Disney where he worked as a designer in 1941, Kelly found work at Dell Publishing and here he created the character of Pogo, an anthropomorphic opossum who debuted in 1942 until 1947 when publication was discontinued. In 1948 Kelly became art director of the New York Star and for this newspaper he created 30 "pilot newspapers" to present the Pogo universe to the newspaper's readers. These pilot strips were all numbered and eventually published, although not in their original order. Our strip is the very rare n. 13, even though it was published as the forty-fourth Daily comic strip. Work published in the volume "Walt Kelly: The Life and Art of the Creator of Pogo" by Thomas Andrae and Carsten Laqua on page 80 in 2012. On two panels. Signed and dated.
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