Thursday 29 July 2004

Pogo

Tom found a site today belonging to (semi) celebrated comics editor Mark Evanier which is pretty good.

It has links to stuff by the great comic book artist and creator Jack Kirby and Sergio Argones with whom he worked on the fabulous "Groo the Wanderer", a very funny piss take of "Conan the Barbarian".

Stand out for me though was the link to Pogo, a little known comic strip outside the US.
It was the creation of brilliant comic illustrator Walt Kelly, who worked for Disney before creating a comic strip that was tackling issues like racism and segregation as early as the mid-fifties.
It still reads well and looks terrific today, serving as a brilliant rebuttal to those who claim that comics are a stunted medium fit only for children.

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