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I don't see too many artists with a "thing" for Walt Kelly's Ma'm'zelle Hepzibah, but Kevin J. Mulder (Slickpuppy) has posted one of the nicest I've seen in ages. I thought I'd find one of my own to post.
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I know that some years ago Eclipse was publishing the colour Pogo comics. I bought four volumes and lost interest. It was intertesting seeing how the characters and art evolved, but the work was too primative to be paying $11 (Cdn.) a volume, endlessly. I think that's what does in series like these. Most buyers have their curiosity satisfied quickly, and the market goes soft long before the series is ended. (How many times has someone tried to publish "the Complete Vaughn Bode"? I think I have about four first volumes of different attempts... ) As for the complete Pogo b/w's, I suspect they'll run into the same problem. The early stuff is primative by contrast with the later baroque art and political satire. For that matter, how much of that satire is intelligible anymore? As a Canadian, it was never that intelligible even then. I am a heretic. I never liked Walt Kelly's writing or his damned poetry. I just like the art.
I've long considered him the best writer to work in the American comic strip form -- better, even, than Herriman!
Yet I do agree that much of the work he did before 1951 seems rather primitive when compared with his later achievements, and for that reason, I was disappointed with his comic books; it was in the strip itself that his skills came to life -- and they were magnificent.
Mark
Yet I do agree that much of the work he did before 1951 seems rather primitive when compared with his later achievements, and for that reason, I was disappointed with his comic books; it was in the strip itself that his skills came to life -- and they were magnificent.
Mark
He was certainly one of the most intelligent writers in the strips, even if it didn't resonate with me personally. The problem is that the politics dated somewhat. Youhave to know something of the times. When the souless minions at the syndicate tried to revive the strip years later, drawn by Sternecky, it was possible to capture the spirit of the art, but not the script. It wasn't that the writer (Doyle) was unwilling to poke fun at politicians or political movements, but it was no longer shocking in 1989. In Kelly's day, his daring was, well, *daring*. In 1989 it was commonplace. One more political cartoon strip, oh hum.
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