Pogo schtick

[captainsblog]

A just-read Friendspost about a one-off version of "Deck the Halls" reminded me of the bestest version of it that there ever was.  It came from an odd, and rather subversive, daily comic strip I grew up with, set in the Okefenokee Swamp and called, simply, Pogo after its titular possum.

When its creator died in 1973, Pogo died soon thereafter, unlike so many strips which just seem to go on forever after having their hearts cut out. The one common exception, though, was in many papers (including my dear Cornell Daily Sun), which would run Pogo's peculiar rendition of "Deck the Halls" every December:



You can hear a respectable rendition of the carol here.

As Walt Kelly might have put it, we have seen His Star in the East, and He is Us.

Comments

[princesskraehe.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this! One of my faves.

[i-beckygardens.livejournal.com]

We have three or four pogo books around here somewhere, Jim was a fan

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the memories!

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

One mustn't forget the other version - "Bark Us All Bow-Wows of Folly."

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Quite the rendition!