Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild... Read full biography
Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild array of talking, wisecracking, animals. He also drew for comic books, worked in animation for Disney,... Read full biography
Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild array of talking, wisecracking, animals. He also drew for comic books, worked in animation for Disney, and served for a time as a political cartoonist. Walter Crawford Kelly was born in Philadelphia. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1915, along with, as he put it, "father, mother, sister and... Read full biography
Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild array of talking, wisecracking, animals. He also drew for comic books, worked in animation for Disney, and served for a time as a political cartoonist. Walter Crawford Kelly was born in Philadelphia. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1915, along with, as he put it, "father, mother, sister and sixteen teeth, all his own." The desire to be an artist occurred to him in childhood, and while he was in high school he drew not only for the school paper and yearbook, but also for the local newspaper. One of the things he drew for the paper was a... Read full biography
Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild array of talking, wisecracking, animals. He also drew for comic books, worked in animation for Disney, and served for a time as a political cartoonist. Walter Crawford Kelly was born in Philadelphia. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1915, along with, as he put it, "father, mother, sister and sixteen teeth, all his own." The desire to be an artist occurred to him in childhood, and while he was in high school he drew not only for the school paper and yearbook, but also for the local newspaper. One of the things he drew for the paper was a biographical comic strip about P.T. Barnum, a flamboyant character Kelly was fond of all his life. In the middle 1930s, young Kelly sold a bit of wor... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (7)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia
1996
Horn, Maurice (editor)
414 pages (color)
The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present