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   From: forban@hal-pc.org   
      
   Treesong wrote:   
   > Like last month, this month's best item is a big reprint book from   
   > Fantagraphics, this time two years of Pogo. Buy it buy it buy it. The   
   > Mickey Mouse hardbacks are impressive too.   
      
   >   
   > JUL111086   Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips vol. 1:   
   > "Through the Wild Blue Wonder"   11"x9" hc, 360pg, b&w   $39.99   
   > by Walt Kelly   
   > 'Our first volume (of 12) collects approximately the first two years   
   > of Pogo dailies and, for the first time, full-color Sundays. First   
   > created in the 1940's, Pogo blended nonsense language, poetry, and   
   > socio-political satire, presaging later strips such as Doonesbury and   
   > The Boondocks. Special features in this premiere volume include a   
   > biographical introduction, an extensive glossary by comics historian   
   > R.C. Harvey and a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin.'   
   > Pogo is the greatest comic strip of all time, and I say that with full   
   > awareness of Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Peanuts, Calvin&  Hobbes,   
   > Doonesbury, The Boondocks, and Marmaduke. If you don't have this   
   > material from past reprintings, you have to have it. This is the best   
   > buy of the year, no matter what else comes out before 2012. Most   
   > extremely highestly recommendedest.   
   >   
   >   
      
   This is IIRC the third try at collecting Pogo in book form, the others   
   having run out of steam at various stages. Will Fantagraphics actually   
   do all twelve volumes? WILL THEY?!? Stranger things have happened.   
      
   Including the color Sunday strips sounds good. I'll see about setting a   
   copy anyhow.   
      
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