tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post7520818782672700516..comments2024-03-08T17:55:48.308-05:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Friday's "Forgotten" Books: EXPLAINERS by Jules Feiffer (Fantagraphics, 2008); IMPOLLUTABLE POGO by Walt Kelly (Simon & Schuster, 1970)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-1762482354311847732013-04-11T17:48:20.129-04:002013-04-11T17:48:20.129-04:00Hmm...I'm not sure I had the POOP BOOK, but be...Hmm...I'm not sure I had the POOP BOOK, but bet you've looked at your copy more recently than I have mine.<br /><br />I have picked up the first POGO volume from Fantagraphics, and will be catching up with the others with all deliberate speed (I hadn't been paying enough attention to note the second one had been released...).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-71129743167435104772013-04-09T19:42:29.987-04:002013-04-09T19:42:29.987-04:00Todd, you're thinking of The Pogo Poop Book, w...Todd, you're thinking of <i>The Pogo Poop Book,</i> which comes later than <i>Jack Acid</i>. <i>JA</i> is a knock on the John Birch Society: Deacon Mushrat publishes a newsletter under that name, with his frequent co-conspirator Molester Mole writing as Bobby Base. As the Deacon puts it, "Bobby Base and Jack Acid come together for some salty doings... heh, heh."<br /><br />"So that means," says Pogo, "the society is half base and half..."<br /><br />In contrast, <i>Poop</i> goes after a variety of targets: fascists left, right and center; the Klan, as previously noted; automation; and religions of every stripe.<br /><br />Also it's worth noting that Pogo is getting the Complete treatment, same as Peanuts, Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Mickey Mouse and Hagar(!). Two hardbound collections have ben published by Fantagraphics so far, printing every Pogo strip in chronological order.Bradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-35000711834646821592009-07-24T20:29:00.410-04:002009-07-24T20:29:00.410-04:00Of course, I've just listened to the inadequat...Of course, I've just listened to the inadequate FRESH AIR review of THE ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN, from Kitchen Sink Press, that other uderfunded but doughty comics publisher. (Milo Miles thinks that HELP! didn't have much to do with comics. He's frequently that dull-witted.)<br /><br />(A Feiffer that is in the same league as that Kelly is the VOICE strip in which a somewhat geeky More Sorrowrul Than Angry Young Man observes a woman he's attracted to from across a cafe or nightclub, predicting that her involvement with the man she's flirting with will be as unsatisfying as the others he's observed her initiating, over the weeks, we gather, that he hasn't bothered to speak to her. "While I, who understand her so well, have been here all along," he congratulates himself in his self-martyring smugness. Notable how many young men I've met don't get the last twist of Feiffer's knife there.)Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-84431785172693890952009-07-24T20:20:50.776-04:002009-07-24T20:20:50.776-04:00Jerry, that one has the little Klan kid story in i...Jerry, that one has the little Klan kid story in it, I think, doesn't it? The baby animal under the junior-sized sheets parrots magnolious evil for a few lines. stuff passed along by his parents For His Own Good and Safety, of course, then quietly appends, "My parents love me." Kelly wrote that he never did anything that touched Lewis Carroll or Anatole France. I'd say, Close enough.<br /><br />I wouldn't let my citation stop yours...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-49129660004471053222009-07-24T19:56:35.643-04:002009-07-24T19:56:35.643-04:00Ah, you beat me to it, Todd. I was working on a r...Ah, you beat me to it, Todd. I was working on a review of The Jack Acid Society Black Book for next week. For art and for biting satire, it's hard to top Kelly.Jerry Housenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77126844466577778902009-07-24T18:09:21.037-04:002009-07-24T18:09:21.037-04:00I don't know why I didn't read them. We go...I don't know why I didn't read them. We got the Bulletin in those days and I never got in the habit. A book always seemed more satisfying somehow. I didn't like the dollops of info-funny since I write ss now.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36148132553031850522009-07-24T16:42:37.117-04:002009-07-24T16:42:37.117-04:00I would say that you were simply on the leading ed...I would say that you were simply on the leading edge of the curve...but why have you boycotted the newspaper strips? Too little dolloped out at a time (I think it was Spider Robinson who noted it thus, "Imagine telling a story one paragraph per day." Hello, Twitter novels)? <br /><br />Or did none of them appeal to you, even when collected? That would surprise me, given that you like the stuff apparently when presented in six-page-story formats (the Archie and DC and/or Marvel comics models). Did Philly have any papers with THE SPIRIT supplements back when?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-58465403855708790522009-07-24T16:18:44.232-04:002009-07-24T16:18:44.232-04:00Will you hate me if I say I never read comics in t...Will you hate me if I say I never read comics in the newspaper? Just Archie and Veronica and the Superhero types. Great fan of those.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com