The Pogo Poop Book

by Walt Kelly

Original Pogo cartoons.

Genres: Humor, Comics

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

American animator and cartoonist best known for the classic funny animal comic strip, Pogo. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1951 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their Silver T-Square Award in 1972, given to persons having "demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession."

Reviews

[Kenneth · Rating 5 out of 5]

A publication of the mid-1960's, Walt Kelly satirizes and lampoons the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan among others. The last episode, entitled "Whose God Is Dead?" is a send up of the God Is Dead theologians of the mid-1960's - Thomas Altizer and others, now mostly fogotten (and I think rightfully so). But "Is God Dead?" was on the cover of an issue of TIME magazine back then and caused quite a stir at the time. Kelly uses the kids' story of Chicken Little as a vehicle for a parody wherein Chicken Little is a noted theologian who is running to tell the King that God is Dead and expects the king to appoint a new God. Quite hilarious!

[Craig Werner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Report from Prehysteria, the real poop on the origins of the Jack Acid Society, the scramble to be next in line when news reaches the swamp of the death of God, looking suspiciously like an acorn on Chicken Little's head and/or half an angel. Vintage Pogo.

[Gary Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Walt Kelly was a genius.

[Michael P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun, fun, fun and silly, silly, silly. In other words, typically Pogo.