Wow.
OK, this is WAY off topic, folks. No mystery here; if you object, then proceed to the next post. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It's just that one of my favorite comic strips from what we'll politely call my formative years has suddenly reappeared - and what a reappearance.
The strip is "Pogo," by Walt Kelly. Pogo is perhaps best known for saying, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo, as you should know (if you're old enough to remember) is a possum, living in the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, with a whole lot of friends, like Albert Alligator, Mam'selle Hepzibah (a skunk), Churchy LaFemme (a turtle), Porkypine, Howland Owl, Deacon Mushrat (who "speaks" in Old English gothic type) and a whole lot more. It was a comic strip with attitude; Walt Kelly did political satire long before Doonesbury. His comics were pointed and yet they were also, usually, very very funny.
According to the editors' note in the recently published Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
The strip ended in 1975 (nearly two years after Kelly's death), so I suspect a lot of my readers simply are too young to remember Pogo. That's a pity. But you'll never see a more beautifully put-together collection of comic strips, complete with the full-color Sunday strips, than this one. I hope a new generation of Pogo readers can be created. I'm thumbing through the book and here's Pogo, having just won or maybe lost a rigged election, saying "I protests, contests and deetests every ol' thing 'bout this ee-lection." We haven't come very far, have we?
Ah well. As Porkypine says, "Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't nohow permanent."
Welcome back, everyone.
Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled mysteries...
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