New Releases by Walt Kelly

Collects the years 1965 and 1966 of the classic comic strip that feels timelier than ever.

Collects the years 1961 through 1964 of the classic newspaper strip whose timeless political satire feels more timely than ever.

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This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly''s remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma''m''selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.

This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order anywhere—with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In Volume 6, Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, it''s election year and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate.

Presents the years 1957-1960 of the politically progressive, influential newspaper strip.

"A true natural genius of comic art." — Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey Starting in 1948, Walt Kelly''s newspaper-based comic strip Pogo lampooned sociopolitical issues from the Red Scare to the environmental movement. A gifted cartoonist who began his career at Walt Disney Studios, Kelly explored the virtues and follies of human nature with a lively cast of Okefenokee Swamp critters. Kind-hearted Pogo Possum headed the crew, which included intellectual Howland Owl; exuberant Albert Alligator; poetic mud turtle Churchy LaFemme; romantic hound dog Beauregard Bugleboy; and other impish personalities. Even readers too young to appreciate the strip''s satirical elements were charmed by the eccentric creatures and their offbeat wordplay. This compilation features comics from the election year of 1952, during which Pogo''s neighbors encouraged the reluctant possum to run for president. Their rallying cry, "I Go Pogo," parodied Dwight D. Eisenhower''s "I Like Ike" slogan and provided real-life fans with a write-in candidate. Kelly''s sly humor and flair for creative language—replete with malapropisms and nonsense verse — retain their imaginative verve for comics enthusiasts of the twenty-first century.

Following on the heels of Hermes Press'' critically acclaimed Eisner nominated reprint of Walt Kelly''s Pogo stories from Animal Comics, Four Color Comics, and Pogo Possum in Walt Kelly''s Pogo the Complete Dell Comics Volumes One and Two ― with Volume Five having been released in December 2017― this sixth volume finishes off the complete reprint with Pogo Parade! Walt Kelly''s Pogo, acknowledged as one of the most important and influential comic strips of all time, first appeared not in newspapers but as a feature in the Dell comic book anthology Animal Comics, as well as in Dell''s Four Color Comics before getting its own title, Pogo Possum in 1949. It was here, in the four color world of comic books, that the feature and its characters grew and matured, ultimately becoming one of the world''s most famous comic strips. Now fans of Pogo can see it all from the beginning with Hermes Press'' reprint of the complete Dell Comics Pogo. Noted comics historian Thomas Andrae observed that with Pogo, "Walt Kelly created a strip that is both poetic and graphically stunning as well as an important commentary on our times." With Hermes Press'' complete reprint of Dell Comics Pogo admirers of this groundbreaking comics feature can now witness the strip''s evolution, in an archival hardcover, digitally reconstructed to perfection.

This is the first time Pogo has been complete and in chronological order for the first time anywhere―with all 104 Sunday strips from these two years presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections. In this volume, the Okefenokee gang decide to dig a canal to compete with the Suez (as soon as they can con one of their own into doing the digging) and consider going back to school. Among other hi-jinx, a flea comes a courtin'' Beauregard the Dog.

In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956''s daily Pogo strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strip Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago.

Walt Kelly''s Pogo: the Complete Dell Comics Volume Five; ISBN: 978-1-61345-127-4; 192; all color; all art and script by Walt Kelly; hardcover; $50. Following on the heels of Hermes Press'' critically acclaimed Eisner nominated reprint of Walt Kelly''s Pogo stories from Animal Comics, Four Color Comics, and Pogo Possum in Walt Kelly''s Pogo the Complete Dell Comics Volumes One and Two ― with Volume Four having been released in November 2016― this fifth volume reprints the even more issues of Pogo Possum, #12-#14. Walt Kelly''s Pogo, acknowledged as one of the most important and influential comic strips of all time, first appeared not in newspapers but as a feature in the Dell comic book anthology Animal Comics, as well as in Dell''s Four Color Comics before getting its own title, Pogo Possum in 1949. It was here, in the four color world of comic books, that the feature and its characters grew and matured, ultimately becoming one of the world''s most famous comic strips. Now fans of Pogo can see it all from the beginning with Hermes Press'' reprint of the complete Dell Comics Pogo. Noted comics historian Thomas Andrae observed that with Pogo, "Walt Kelly created a strip that is both poetic and graphically stunning as well as an important commentary on our times." With Hermes Press'' complete reprint of Dell Comics Pogo admirers of this groundbreaking comics feature can now witness the strip''s evolution, in an archival hardcover, digitally reconstructed to perfection.

Before achieving international fame as the creator of Pogo Possum, legendary cartoonist Walt Kelly produced an outstanding body of work adapting and illustrating fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes for Dell Comics in the 1940s. Already an indisputable master of his craft, these wonderful and whimsical stories come to unparalleled life through Kelly''s signature, spirited humor and fluid, exuberant hand. Comprised of carefully selected and rarely seen work that originally appeared in issues of Dell Comics'' Fairy Tale Parade, Four Color, Raggedy Ann and Andy, and Santa Claus Funnies, this volume is a vital part of the history and legacy of one of comics'' most eminent and influential masters.

Following on the heels of Hermes Press'' critically acclaimed Eisner nominated reprint of Walt Kelly''s Pogo stories from Animal Comics, Four Color Comics, and Pogo Possum in Walt Kelly''s Pogo the Complete Dell Comics, this fourth volume reprints the complete issues #7-11 of Pogo Possum. Walt Kelly''s Pogo, acknowledged as one of the most important and influential comic strips of all time, first appeared not in newspapers but as a feature in the Dell comic book anthology Animal Comics. Now fans of Pogo can see it all from the beginning with Hermes Press'' reprint of the complete Dell Comics Pogo.

It''s in this volume (featuring another two years worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly''s boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey''s face were to appear in it again. Kelly''s response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character''s head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly''s layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a Rhode Island Red hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.) The entirety of these sequences can be found in this book. But the Malarkey storyline is only a tiny portion of those rich, eventful two years, which include such classic sequences as con-man Seminole Sam''s attempts to corner the market on water (which Porkypine''s Uncle Baldwin tries to one-up by cornering the market on dirt); a return engagement of Pup Dog and Houndog''s blank-eyed Little Orphan Annie parody Li''l Arf and Nonny; Churchy La Femme going in drag to deliver a love poem he wrote, Cyrano style, on Deacon Mush-rat''s behalf to Sis Boombah (the aforementioned hen); P.T. Bridgeport''s return to the swamp in search of new talent; and of course two rousing choruses of Deck Us All With Boston Charlie.

Pogo: Bona Fide Balderdash is the second volume in a series reprinting in its entirety the syndicated run of Walt Kelly''s classic newspaper strip. It features all the strips from 1951 and 1952, which have been collected before, but in now long-out-of print books, and even there they were not as meticulously restored and reproduced as in this new series. Bona Fide Balderdash also reprints, literally for the first time ever in full color, the two full years of Sunday pages, also carefully restored and color-corrected, shot from the finest copies available.

Walt Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly’s scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics ― Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo ― dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays. This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.

Presents a collection of classic Christmas comic book stories, featuring Santa Claus, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and the elves of the North Pole.

This print companion series to Disney''s famous DVDs celebrates milestones in Disney comics history. This volume: in honor of Donald Duck''s 75th anniversary, join us in tracing his comics career from 1934 to the present! We get things started with classic newspaper comics; then Federico Pedrocchi''s "Donald Duck, Special Correspondent" checks out war-torn Sylvania in a rare 1938 epic. Carl Barks'' "Darkest Africa" takes the Ducks into the depths of the jungle, while Walt Kelly''s "Surprise Party" finds Donald and the boys feuding over an ice cream cache. Tony Strobl''s "Big Balloon Race" is his personal favorite self-written story, making its North American debut; while Giorgio Cavazzano''s "Forgetful Hero" is a kamikaze pilot whose daredevil flights Scrooge, Donald, and Fethry are forced to reenact! "Room and Bored" finds William Van Horn''s Donald turning a dull evening wild, while Don Rosa''s "Once and Future Duck" hits Arthurian Britain in a feature-length time-travel trek. Join us for this unprecedented look at everybody''s favorite duck!

Jack Acid Society is Kelly''s satirical take on the white supremacist group The John Birch Society, which was making news in the early 1960s. The name is a play on "Jack-Asses" as a adjective.

Miz Weevil''s son Fremont is being touted for president. His slogan is "Jes Fine" (really the only two words he knows, but is as good a slogan as any). It goes downhill from there with Pogo''s pals - Albert, Howland Owl, Congersman Frog, Tammany the tiger, Porky, P.T. Bridgeport and the rest of the Okefenokee folks - contributing to the general mayhem

Pogo, a possum by trade, first appeared in a comic-book feature called "Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator" in 1943. Six years later, he was on his way up through the newspaper columns into the homes of millions of Americans. Today Pogo is as household a word as "blueberry pie," "who''s-got-the-funnies?" and "probabobbly-me." Here now is the official tenth-anniversary history and commemoration of Pogo, spelled out in a selection of daily strips, Sunday pages, Pogo book stories and a sprinkling of verse, all wrapped up with a running commentary on this past decade in the Okefenokee Swamp and elsewhere by Walt Kelly. Life in the Swamp and life in the Elsewhere have more than a passing resemblance, as Pogo readers have long been aware. Kelly''s creations are deeply embroiled in everything from Presidential elections to atomic bombs, from civil liberties and juvenile delinquency to schools and the Olympics, from beatniks and baseball to taxes, TV, togetherness, and just plain fun. This book is an attempt to answer the flood of letters over the years, asking, demanding, begging, cajoling and petitioning Kelly to gather together some of his work as a permanent collection. So here it is: ten ever lovin'' blue eyed years - with Pogo and his friends and with the assorted pleasures and calamities, real and fancied, that have in these uneasy years shaken their world and ours.