Pogo: The Tale of Handle and Gristle

[mrosa]

Walt Kelly, the great creator of Pogo and his friends from the Okefenokee Swamp, is seldom remembered, even though he is one of the medium's giants. Here's a lovely sequence from Pogo's Sunday Punch:

Albert Alligator is telling Pogo a fairy-tale, and this is the convoluted finale:










8 pages from a 26-page story.

Comments

[pallas_athena]

I call shenanigans: the boat doesn't have a different name in each panel, as is the custom with Pogo boats. Fer shame, Walt, fer shame.

[droolfangrrl]

It does! It's written onthe side you can't see.

[pallas_athena]

Oh, that explains it!