It's a classic tale with a holiday twist...
...as told by the legendary Walt (Pogo) Kelly in Dell's Four Color Comics #140 (1947)
"Fudgy-wudgy" indeed!
Showing posts with label Easter with Mother Goose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter with Mother Goose. Show all posts
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE
Here's a short story featuring a plethora of fairy tale characters...
...as presented by a (then) future superstar of the comic strip or, (if you want to be pretentious) graphic novel form!
The title story from Dell's Four Color Comics #103: Easter with Mother Goose (1946) was written and illustrated by Walt Kelly, whose signature series Pogo wouldn't debut for another three years.
Trivia:
While Pogo as a stand-alone series began in 1949, various characters including Pogo himself and Albert the Alligator had appeared as supporting characters in other Walt Kelly-written and drawn strips since 1941.
Besides doing an annual comic of Easter stories featuring fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters celebrating the holiday, Walt also did an even-more popular series of annual Christmas comics utilizing the same concept!
Trivia:
While Pogo as a stand-alone series began in 1949, various characters including Pogo himself and Albert the Alligator had appeared as supporting characters in other Walt Kelly-written and drawn strips since 1941.
Besides doing an annual comic of Easter stories featuring fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters celebrating the holiday, Walt also did an even-more popular series of annual Christmas comics utilizing the same concept!
Friday, April 15, 2022
Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Inside an Easter Egg"
Sometimes Walt (Pogo) Kelly did single page shorts...
...sometimes he combined several unrelated short pieces into a theme, like what you might see inside an Easter Egg!
...as this never-reprinted piece from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946) demonstrates!
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Friday, April 8, 2022
Friday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Hot Cross Buns"...Two Ways!
Sometimes Walt Kelly liked a nursery rhyme so much...he used it twice!
Such is the case with this one...from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #103 (1946), and then, with an extra rhyme, in Easter with Mother Goose #220 (1949)
You gotta admit, if there's anyone who can do a classic nursery rhyme and make it appear fresh both times, it's Walt!
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Sunday, April 3, 2022
Easter Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Shorts"
Several one-pagers by Walt (Pogo) Kelly...
...from various issues of Dell's Four Color Comics' Easter with Mother Goose annual issues!
Note, none have ever been reprinted!
From Four Color #103 (1946), #140 (1947), #185 (1948), and #220 (1949)
Enjoy!
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Sunday, March 27, 2022
EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE Cover Gallery
From 1946 through 1949, Dell produced an annual Easter with Mother Goose...
...with all-new stories and art by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!
We've presented a number of the stories (most never-reprinted since the 1940s) HERE.
Friday, March 25, 2022
Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Goldilocks and the Baby Bear's Basket"
Here's a classic fairy tale everybody knows...
...adapted for the Easter season by Walt (Pogo) Kelly!
A never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #140 (1947) demonstrates how Walt Kelly could take even a tale you didn't think would work in this context and make it seasonally-appropriate!
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Sunday, March 20, 2022
Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Candy Egg"
Here's a (literally) sweet, never-reprinted Walt (Pogo) Kelly short...
...from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #220 (1948)!
Imagine getting one of these 52-page annuals in your Easter basket along with jellybeans, chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps!
Several 7-10 page stories, a number of 1-3 page features, games, and, usually, a wraparound cover!
Would've kept the 5-8 year-old me occupied in those dark days before TV (much less the Internet)!
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Friday, March 18, 2022
Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Humpty Dumpty"
An Easter-themed combination of a pair of classic nursery rhymes...
... courtesy of legendary writer/artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly...who really knew how to freshen up an old concept!
This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose (1948) expands on the nursery rhyme with a new adventure of the accident-prone ovum!Walt Kelly also used Humpty in other Mother Goose comic stories.
Oddly, the cover, also by Walt Kelly, features a radically-different version of Humpty...
Weird, eh?
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Friday, March 11, 2022
Friday Holiday Fun EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Lost Chick"
Some of Walt (Pogo) Kelly's Easter tales were totally-new...
...not just reworkings of classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales!
This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #185 (1948) takes characters who had not appeared together before and also explains where the Easter Bunny gets his supply of eggs from.
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