The Pogo Party | Walt Kelly | I can think of worse candidates

The Pogo Party | Walt Kelly | I have met the enemy, and it is us...

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The Pogo Party

	The Pogo Party Walt Kelly Simon and Schuster, 1956 - 191 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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I can think of worse candidates

It's election year (1956) in the swamp again, and that can mean only one thing: Pogo's election campaign is off to a howling start. Kelly creates lots of stereotypes that we still recognize: adman Seminole Sam with his polls based on a sample of one, Churchy (the sample of one) and his unique ability to misunderstand anything, loyal dog volunteering his loyalty `cuz everyone trusts a man with a dog, and beautiful and exotic Miz Ma'm'selle skunk.

Plans are on for Miz Ma'm'selle to marry Pogo - repeatedly if necessary - but the plan has just one little problem. No one asked Miz Ma'm'selle, or Pogo for that matter. Come to think of it, they held off telling him he was a candidate at all, since he didn't like the idea a whole lot. In fact, Pogo sounds like the one quiet, sane voice amid the hollering and silliness. And, in the end, it's his voice that has the last word, and his pantry that provisions the party - again, without his being told.

//wiredweird

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I have met the enemy, and it is us...

Walt Kelly's Pogo is nothing short of extrodinary, and this is a perfect example, I own a copy of the origional printing of this book, and despite the fact that every page is loose, and it looks like it has been through a war, I still read it every year or so.
See three at bats, with baseball references made by bats (the flying kind) in bowler hats. See Pogo run for vice president. "Who cares who is for president, I'm for vice.". See the muscrat whose dialog is written in a unique logo-like script, complete with arrows etc.
If the book listed here contains the entire origional I want it!!! I want it!!! Too bad they haven't gotten the look inside feature up yet.

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