| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | thorin4th (0)
06/24/2007 | Simply the greatest multi-panel comic strip ever!
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 | wronghero (0)
01/29/2006 | Certainly one of the ten greats. The McCarthy-era sequences alone will ensure its immortality. After its 1950s heyday it was often more whimsical than bust-a-gut funny, but the rendering was always superb. One of those strips, like Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Krazy Kat, Thimble Theatre, Little Nemo, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, Smokey Stover, Toonerville Trolley, and Polly and Her Pals which created a fascinating alternative world.
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
01/09/2006 | I never got it. Maybe, I wasn't supposed to get it. I thought it was too goofy.
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 | irishgit (138)
04/06/2005 | Just brilliant. Nothing comes close today. Funny, smart and political. If you want a quick grasp of the Red Scare mentality, read a few strips with Simple J. Malarky in them.
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 | sluggo (0)
04/06/2005 | ...good king sauerkraut looked out..on his feets uneven...
what could be more endearing than having churchy la femme warble a few xmas songs..long live pogo...
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 | Habanerobuck (0)
06/04/2004 | A classic, but only when read day by day. In compilations, the jokes become somewhat repetitive. Clever dialogue.
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| Shooshie (0)
05/30/2004 | Walt Kelly: the greatest cartoonist ever. All cartoonists worth their salt pay homage to the man who inspired them to draw and make people think. Al Capp was perhaps his only equal with pencils and pens, but Kelly was much more subtle and compassionate beneath his slapstick. Cynical? Yes. Cutting satire? Yes. But always with a redeeming thought.
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 | ERGignac (0)
06/16/2003 | This has been one of my biggest influences. Both art and writing one of the best!!! ~Erg!
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| bud neill (0)
05/31/2003 | This is the father of all the great modern strips. It deserves 5 for that. I'm not sure whether its dialogue style still hits home these days, but it's great to look at.
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 | Classic Steve (0)
05/21/2003 | Amazing how episodes older than my mom can make me laugh. The politics are not lost on me, though I'm grateful for the many non-political episodes. Kelly excels at both verbal and visual humor. My only complaint is the scarcity of females, which is not in itself a flaw.
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| Andrew Gilmore (10)
04/24/2003 | I feel a great aesthetic loss in not having the opportunity to see more than half a dozen or so "Pogo" strips, but what I have seen is great and lives up to Kelly's reputation. I have a few of the Pogo comic books which Kelly drew prior to bringing it to newspapers..I'll have to give those a look sometime. Anyway, from the admittedly little I have seen, I agree that Kelly was a genius. (Plus he was from Philly just like me!)
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| DonAlejandro (0)
04/01/2003 | Walt Kelly's Pogo is probably the greatest and most influential comic strip ever. Pogo represents a brilliant combination of lush artistry, unforgettable characters, hilarious storylines, unabashed wackiness, and acutely topical political humor that was unmatched then and has not been matched since. Without Pogo, there would be no Calvin & Hobbes (note the similarities between Kelly's Albert the Alligator and Hobbes, and of course Pogo and Calvin) and no Bloom County - and these are only the most obvious (and best) of the strips influenced by Pogo. If you're a fan of Watterson or Breathed, you're a fan of Walt Kelly, even if you don't know it. Do yourself a favor and find yourself a Pogo collection. Beautiful, rich, artful, smiling genius.
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