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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For anyone not familiar with Walt Kelly, I
recommend the Fantagraphics </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>collections of the Pogo newpaper strips, available
in comic book stores.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Apart from the beautiful, detailed art (as compared
with the minimalistic </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>'Dilbert'-type drawing styles we see today), what I
like best about these stories </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is the total absence of any sensible or predictable
plot lines. To quote from </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the dust jacket of one of the books: "What begins
with a sort of wholesale </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>courtship of a skunk turns </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>into a brief panic about sea serpents that becomes </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a migration West that </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>subjects everyone momentarily to the ministrations of the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>resident con man that </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>results, finally, in a cow taking work as a cat." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It doesn't always make a lot of sense, but it's
great fun - much like</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>life itself.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nils from Norway</FONT></DIV>
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