A couple of weeks ago I had a posting that showed an early article about the phenom of Mickey Spillane, and his hard-boiled crime fiction. You can see it here.
According to Life, Walt Kelly, creator of “Pogo,” was inspired by that same article to do a Spillane satire. His own hardboiled detective, Meat Hamburg, is played by Albert the Alligator in a strip for the book, Uncle Pogo’s So-So Stories, published in 1953 Here's “The Bloody Drip” by “Muckey Spleen.”
The Pogo comic strip, a phenomenon in its own right, was featured a year earlier, also in Life, in a feature drawn especially for that magazine.
With Pogo's personal popularity, a run for president was called for. Here are a 1952 campaign button and a later poster.
At Insomnia Notebook WE GO POGO!
3 comments:
Great post! Never saw this one. Gee, too many choices for President. Alfred E. Nueman, W.C. Fields, Pat Paulsen, Ben Davis and now Pogo!
I seem to recall another Spillane--or Chandler or Hammitt--parody, in which detective Albert drinks from a cup that, unbeknownst to him, has a bug in it. The bug shouts out, "Lips that touch wine, won't touch ME!" The only allusion to alcohol I can remember in a Pogo strip.
Kirk, meet Dave Miller, ardent, longtime Pogo fan whose comment is above yours. Maybe he can identify the Pogo strip you saw.
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