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В заголовке все сказано. Полностью название нового тома выглядит так: Pogo — The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 3: «Evidence to the Contrary». Вообще, объявление на сайте издательства повесили уже довольно давно, вот только писать было немного лениво, все равно отправлять его начнут в лучшем случае в ноябре (у них даже дизайн обложки еще не окончательный). Параметры томика все те же, вплоть до количества страниц, цена тоже без изменений.

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Walt Kelly takes on Senator Joseph McCarthy in the form of wildcat “Simple J. Malarkey” (a controversial move at the time) and more in this collection of years 1953-1954 of the seminal mid-century newspaper strip.

It’s in this volume (featuring another two years’ worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly’s boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey’s face were to appear in it again. Kelly’s response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character’s head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly’s layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a “Rhode Island Red” hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.) The entirety of these sequences can be found in this book. But the Malarkey storyline is only a tiny portion of those rich, eventful two years, which include such classic sequences as con-man Seminole Sam’s attempts to corner the market on water (which Porkypine’s Uncle Baldwin tries to one-up by cornering the market on dirt); a return engagement of Pup Dog and Houn’dog’s blank-eyed Little Orphan Annie parody “Li’l Arf and Nonny”; Churchy La Femme going in drag to deliver a love poem he wrote, Cyrano style, on Deacon Mush-rat’s behalf to Sis Boombah (the aforementioned hen); P.T. Bridgeport’s return to the swamp in search of new talent; and of course two rousing choruses of “Deck Us All With Boston Charlie.” In addition to presenting all of 1953 and 1954’s daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo Volume 3: “Evidence to the Contrary” also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago ― plus the usual in-depth “Swamp Talk” historical annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly’s work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more! Black & white with 104 pages of color.

Product Details

  • Series: Walt Kelly’s Pogo (Book 3)
  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics; 1 edition (November 16, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1606996940
  • ISBN-13: 978-1606996942
  • Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 1.6 x 9.4 inches

 

Secret-weapon Johns

Один из моих любимых персонажей третьего плана.

Walt Kelly: The Life And Art of the Creator of Pogo

Давно ждал выхода этой книжки и, как водится, все прозевал. На прилавках она появилась еще в начале июля этого года, а вспомнить о ней я удосужился только сегодня, о чудо внезапной находки!

 

Hardcover: 244 pages
Publisher: Hermes Press (May 29, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193256389X
ISBN-13: 978-1932563894
Product Dimensions: 9 x 1 x 12 inches

Pogo — The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol.2

Pogo — The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol.2Сегодня все про новые книги! До этого я уже писал про то, как руки издателей все таки добрались до печатного станка и на свет появился первый том полного издания Пого в 12 томах. Престарелые фанаты, должно быть, ликуют, потому что серия, к моей огромной радости не канула в небытие (чего нельзя сказать про новые комиксы о спасателях), а продолжает потихоньку печататься. Не так давно на сайте издательства появилась возможность оформить предзаказ на второй том. Издатели пока что укладывается в рамки своих обещаний, и заветный томик имеет все шансы увидеть свет еще до зимы. Цена осталась примерно на том же уровне.

Шел четвертый год…

Многолетнее ожидание закончилось!
Книга наконец-то вышла, и более того, она уже здесь, прямо у меня на столе!
Первый из двенадцати томов переиздания Pogo, прошу пожаловать в миниатюры..

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Autobiography by Walt Kelly

On August 25, 1913, Walt Kelly, a clear-eyed youth of honest Scotch-Irish-English-French-Austrian blood found himself in Philadelphia, Pa. He was one day old, and although his ancestors had been rooted along the shores of the Delaware for 150 years, he immediately hatched a plan. Two years later, he was in Bridgeport, Connecticut, complete with father, mother, sister and sixteen teeth, all his own.

Ten years later to the day, he was twelve years and one day old. He had survived fire (fell into the coal scuttle with a jack-o-lantern in 1919), flood (homemade boat struck a swimming duck and splintered, 1923), starvation (lost the lunch on a fishing expedition with father, 1924), savage beasts (rabid rabbit shot to death on other side of town, 1924), disease and pestilence (chicken pox and mumps, 1918), and education (6 years grammar school).

Sometime in the next four years he studied French and the French teacher at Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport. Thus fully prepared for life, he arrived at a factory that made ladies’ underwear around 1930 and got a job sweeping floors. Three weeks of this and he decided money did not count. He abandoned his lucrative position and took a job with a newspaper as a reporter.

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