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Walt Kelly Unmasked! Secret and Original! The Pogo Poop Book: Latest Poop on Jack Acid Society, Prehysteria, Kluck Klams, Mouse into Elephant, Computer Commuter, Whose God IS Dead? Customer Review: More silliness and gentle satire
This is one of the later Pogo collections, copyright 1966. As such, most of it is pointed political satire, more targeted towards whole attitudes and movements than individuals. Some of the old dragons, like the Klan, have very nearly been slain today, so Kelly’s crusade against them may look like tilting at windmills to today’s reader. In the early 60s, though, they were real threats worthy of all the worst that could be thrown at them. And Kelly did his very worst.
Maybe it won’t look like much to current, media-jaded readers: Kelly’s attacks foretold the “velvet revolution” of Eastern Europe. His most biting weapon against the Klan, for example, was a simple cold shoulder. “If you do that, go away to do it. Just go away.” It’s touching, and an encouraging reminder that you don’t have to be a front-page hero to fight injustice. Simply standing firm against it works too, and maybe more effectively.
Other pieces include pointed parables in “Prehysteria,” “Mouse into Elephant,” and “Whose God is Dead?” And, in an unusual offering, Kelly presents “The Computer Commuter,” a story in text with illustrated highlights. (If you’ve ever encountered the ‘quants’ of high-powered trading, it’s especially funny.) And, of course, Kelly punctuates the collection with off-key lyrics and alliterative but baffling doggerel, the best since Charles Dodgson set his pen down.
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