The Return of Pogo

Walt Kelly’s beloved swamp critter Pogo Possum returned for a single, oversized 1965 collection published by Simon and Schuster, gathering the newspaper strips from the previous year. This volume, the first in a new series of Pogo albums, showcases Kelly’s signature all-ages humor, political satire, and lyrical wordplay, with the artist-writer handling every aspect of the book. Though brief in its run, this release marks a key transitional moment for the strip, bridging its earlier Dell collections with the later posthumous reprints.