Gbnxt Vbq Pztbnd !

My spell-check just blew a fuse on that title. Do ya think the FBI got their code guys working on this one?

But He's a Chicken

Strange little story line.

My Big Brother

Gonna Have a Fight

Which 1966-67 world leader is this little Prince of Pompadoodle with a Hi, L (heil) salute? He has a uniform similar to Marshal Tito, but that makes no sense. Seems like a big white horse ought to be a clue, but, I dunno. A lot of this phase of satire goes over my head. But my interest is more in Kelly's art, and boy, the art shore is purty.

Gadzoox! A Happy Kapootle!

Meanwhile, back home, business as usual. And not one yellow background!

Worst Thing in the World

Hy, L!

Okay, so now who is this little chicken? He appeared several times in Kelly pieces as the Prince of Pompadoodle, but here he appears to take on a semi-specific satirical guise. One clue is his use of the heil (Hy, L) sign, which he will do at least one more time. The German Chancellor at the time had some connection to the Nazi party during the war, but I don't know. Maybe a Soviet reference? I'm just not familiar with the source of this particular satire.  Anyone?

Lox of Love

1 Scent — 50 Cents

A Spare Thumb

Hard to See That Sausage

King Kanute is a Marvel

This Sunday strip demonstrates effectively the difference that coloration makes. 

First, the obvious, comparing it to the art, sans color, posted below. The black and white ink work is magnificent, but color breathes in  life and atmosphere.

Secondly, notice how the panel backgrounds have a variety of color, as opposed to many of the Sundays having the same bland yellow backgrounds. This strip has a feeling of richness and texture (and of course it helps that the whale is so beautifully rendered) and personally I love the SPLORSH panel.

I don't know what those little black dots are all over the color strip. They're part of the printing, but I don't see them as being registration marks, yet they are deliberate by some print directive.

Oh, and Jim, the dove appears to be a proper white. This strip seems more like Kelly had a hand in coloring, hmm?

You're Anything But Safe

Y'gotta really stretch your mind to understand what Kelly's referring to. Hmmm, gotta smell the winner's breath...hmm.

This was extra art for the book, it was not a daily strip. Notice how detail of the lion has subsided.

You Keep Being Warned

Aah... Baloney

This lion is an homage of sorts to T.S. Sullivant, one of Kelly's great early influences. Speaking of assessment, toward the end of the Pandemonia arc we'll do some assessing of this series, Kelly and his art and we'll showcase a bit of Sullivant.

HAW ! . . .

Outstanding line work, outstanding lion work. This beast is a beauty.

And I shudder to think where Churchy's been carrying that photo all this time.

The Wise Old Lion

Zowie again.

Does Not LOOK Like a Planet

Plinkety Plinkety Plangk!

In some ways, Kelly was just an old vaudevillian.

All of Us Men are Brave and True

What this gorgeous Sunday may lack in cuteness, it more than makes up for in zowie-ness. Out of  20 years of Pogo Sundays, this was another of the very few that didn't have a tree or trees behind the logo.

Wow.

This'n Keep Comin' Back

Sometimes ya got to wonder what motivated or inspired Kelly to come up with the ideas for certain individual strips that get inserted in the midst of larger storylines.

Friday the 13th

Ain't in Tick? Not in the Rosey?

That airplane is so believably drawn.

A Ruddy Electric

Eminent Aircraft Topsarge

How many cartoonists could or would draw complete airplanes, not just on one day's strip, but several, from different angles, in complete detail? And as far as I can tell, over the years, Steve Canyon's Milton Caniff was the 2nd most often referenced real person, Charles Schulz being the #1.

Lookin' Sure-Fire Foolish

Some Indefinable Minor Detail

Jim, I just know you want to take issue with the dove's coloration, but I think Kelly likes color and is just having fun?

Stiffen the Lizards

As the last post indicated, this portion of a strip was in the paper only, not in the book.

Middle of the Outback

This is actually one strip split into two posts. The reason being is that this half was printed in the paper and the book, and the 2nd half, in the next post, was printed in the paper only. They had to edit somewhere, y'know.

The Dinkum Drum

Somethin' Familiar Appearin'

Yay, Basher! First appeared, I think, a decade earlier. A cool continuity factor.

The Pterodactyl What is a Airplane

Beautiful Sight

Four Corners of the Earth

The New Owlian Calendar

In just a few weeks of real-time, we've come around to one year of posts of Pogo in Pandemonia.

We're not done by any means, but ladies and gentlemen, we have started our descent—in preparation for landing, please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position. No, no, really, we still have a ways to go.

This is another nice 'back home' strip. I really like this calendar of Owl's, especially the six months of October. 

A Bamgok Silk Gem Tie

If Y'Wunta 'Schange It

New Year Ree-solution

A Fresh Set of Commandments?

Allus Was a Fore-Thinker

Muted Subtility and Deepity

Man, Kelly got mileage out of that carol this season.

Aw

In the midst of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, what mother wouldn't love a card like that?

Lotsa Folks is Away

Our Christmas Card

One of Kelly's most famous panels. I think I remember seeing it reprinted in Time Magazine.

Help Him Find Hisself

What a perfect portrait of a kid's room.

A Upside Down Ant Hill

What is this Christmas You Talk About

This is one of my favorite daily Pandemonia strips. The unicorn looks great, the message is good, the last panel is so unusual for a Pogo strip, and look there--we see Doc without his topper--well, sorta.

Uncle Knobknut

Upside Down Sorta

Sorry, I got distracted. This is the extra panel that goes with the last post, courtesy of and thanks to Ger Apeldoorn.