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arrow-up1291arrow-down1image9-26-23 www.thefarside.comsh.itjust.worksMrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 1 year agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoPogo is the most underrated comic ever and virtually unknown today. Dude had serious balls too, portraying McCarthy as a weasel during the height of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s.
minus-squarecaseyweederman@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoExtremely influential too. [Bill Watterson talks about Walt Kelly’s influence on him] (https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2015/03/15/Bill-Watterson-speaks-at-last-How-Pogo-and-Peanuts-books-inspired-the-creator-of-Calvin-and-Hobbes/stories/201503150037) (gross, paywall, I bypassed it with Firefox Reader mode)
Pogo is the most underrated comic ever and virtually unknown today. Dude had serious balls too, portraying McCarthy as a weasel during the height of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s.
Extremely influential too.
[Bill Watterson talks about Walt Kelly’s influence on him] (https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2015/03/15/Bill-Watterson-speaks-at-last-How-Pogo-and-Peanuts-books-inspired-the-creator-of-Calvin-and-Hobbes/stories/201503150037) (gross, paywall, I bypassed it with Firefox Reader mode)