Pogo (comic strip)/Trivia

• Author Existence Failure: Walt worked himself basically to death, trying (with his wife, Selby) to animate his own Pogo special while keeping the daily strip going, making it due to his dissatisfaction with the Chuck Jones Pogo special.
• Disowned Adaptation: Walt Kelly despised the animated Pogo Birthday TV special made by Chuck Jones, mainly for mucking about with what Kelly wanted, and how "he took all the sharpness out of it and put in that sweet, saccharine stuff that Chuck Jones always THINKS is Disney, but isn't." Considering Kelly was a former Disney animator, he wasn't saying that lightly.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: While several book collections were published during the strip's run, all of these are long out of print. In 2007 Fantagraphics Books announced the imminent launch of a Complete Pogo series reprinting the entire run of the strip (a la their Complete Peanuts series); due to apparent difficulties in obtaining decent source material for some of the early Sunday strips, it took until November, 2011 for Volume One (of a projected twelve) to finally see release.

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