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<P>Eeep! o.O;; *Gets buried in explination* I only needed to know the character's species actually... This is brief?<P>Whoa... *boggled*<P>------------------Originally posted by digoraccoon:
*giggles* You're prolly rightRaccoon anything is distracting... Heck I managed to find raccoons in anime movies when people kept telling me they're weren't any
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Oh, I don't mind your asking, by any means-
but answering could take a long time! "Pogo"
isn't a subject that can be encapsulated
easily into any single paragraph, or even a
lot of them.. or at all, in a way. Because it
was both a product of the times and a mirror
of those times, held right up to its face so
it could see how ridiculous and benign and
stupid and wrong it could be at times. But, in
brief, Pogo was a comic strip created by an
unbelievably talented and prolific cartoonist
named Walt Kelly. It ran in newspapers
throughout this country during the period of
the greatest social and political change it's
ever had, and it did something that is nowadays
taken for granted, but for it's time was all
but unheard-of: it addressed those social and
political changes within the context of the
characters in the strip. It can be hard to
think of such a thing as radical, or even
unusual, but at the time Kelly did it, it was,
for what was supposed to be a daily humor
comic about "funny animals" anyway. Political
cartoonists have always been around, of course,
but they had been generally limited to the
quick-jab single panel commentary. Kelly did
whole *stories*... and he did them so well
that whether one agreed or not (and the man
had some BIG enemies) the skill was beyond
question. Pogo (the central character) himself
was a possum, and there were more supporting
characters than I could begin to tell you
about - you really need to read some of the
collected comic volumes to get a feel for the
true scope of Kelly's genius. And this is my
attempt to be *brief* on the subject...<P>
"Peace Out, Shinies In"
-Digo Raccoon
