Bill Peckmann &Comic Art 02 Mar 2012 05:55 am
Walt Kelly’s POGO Comic Book Covers
- Here we have Walt Kelly finally htting his stride. The Pogo Comic Book finally appears. Bill Peckmann‘s amazing collection includes some of these beautifuls works of art, and he’s sharing them with us. These are a numbaer of the Front and Back covers with the B&W illustrations within those two covers. Many thanks to Bill for sharing. Enjoy.
1Front Cover of issue #1
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Inner cover
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Inner Back Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
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Back Cover
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Front Cover
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Back Cover
The Pogo covers that are in the excellent
“The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books.”
We have six of the eleven that are in the book.
For a Kelly/Pogo bio, what better place to go to than to
Michael Barrier and Martin Williams‘s boffo book
“A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics!”
(Click to enlarge to read article.)
on 02 Mar 2012 at 7:09 pm 1.RB said …
Wonderful! Thanks for posting this.
on 02 Mar 2012 at 8:22 pm 2.The Gee said …
Those one pagers are just impressive. Just a six panel grid and lots of ways of getting the jokes to work.
on 02 Mar 2012 at 10:02 pm 3.top cat james said …
I wish Fantagraphics would reprint the POGO comic book series. It would make a nice addendum to their excellent volumes of the newspaper strip.