Du Pogo, du Walt Kelly !!!

[FredGri]

Bon, il y a des jours comme ça !
En ce moment j'aimerais bien me lire du Pogo, découvrir le style de Walt Kelly mais vraiment c'est soit introuvable soit carrément supra cher, personne n'aurait des trucs du genre à fourguer ? (j'ose poser la question !!!)
Et parmi les ricains du forum personne n'a eu vent d'eventuelles occas' dans un comics shop local ?

Bref, quelqu'un pour m'aider a trouver du Pogo qui ne dépasse pas 20 $ (ou environ)

[FredGri]

Tenez, j'ai trouvé ce lien

[john_constantine]

Ha putain mon fredo tu me donnes carrément envie là !

[FredGri]

Comme je connais ton sens de la recherche active si jamais tu trouves des trucs tu me fais signe car vraiment ca me branche vraiment ces trucs !

[FredGri]

Le lien vers le site qui a l'air bien officiel
http://www.pogopossum.com/index.htm

[FredGri]

FANTAGRAPHICS TO PUBLISH WALT KELLY'S POGO, DESIGNED BY JEFF SMITH

Fantagraphics Books is pleased to announce that it has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series comprising Walt Kelly's classic POGO comic strip. The first volume of Fantagraphics' POGO will appear in October, 2007, and the series will run approximately 12 volumes, reproducing roughly two years of dailies and Sundays per volume.

Each Pogo volume will be designed by Jeff Smith, the award-winning cartoonist and creator of the Bone graphic novel, and a lifelong admirer of Walt Kelly.

Walt Kelly (born Walter Crawford Kelly Jr.) was born in 1913 and started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post, his local newspaper. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including 'Pinocchio,' 'Dumbo,' and 'Fantasia.' In the mid 1930s, he drew his first comics work for the future DC Comics. Kelly left Disney in 1941 rather than take sides in their bitter labor strike. He moved back east and began drawing comic books for Western Publishing Company and the Dell line of comics.

It was during this time that Kelly created the character Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Dell's Animal Comics as a secondary player in the 'Albert the Alligator' feature. It didn't take long until 'Pogo' became the comic's leading character. After the Second World War, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. When the Star folded in 1949, the Hall Syndicate took 'Pogo' into syndication, so that the strip soon appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, he produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike as a classic comic strip.

Kelly blended nonsense, poetry, and political and social satire in making POGO an essential contribution to American "intellectual" comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly's scathing political views in which he skewered national boogeymen like Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. Kelly was considered a sufficient threat that his phone was tapped and the US Government corresponded with a newspaper reporter who claimed that the eccentric patois Kelly created was a secret Russian code.) Pogo is well known for its elaborate and ornate lettering and for Kelly's distinctive use of language and lush brushwork. It is one of the few comic strips that succeeded in blending humor and politics into an uncompromising and entertaining whole.

The consecutive run of Pogo has never before been systematically collected into book form. (Fantagraphics published a series of 11 softcover volumes reprinting five-and-a-half years of the strip in the '90s.) This will be the definitive series collecting all of his Pogo strips from 1949 to 1973. "Walt Kelly is unquestionably in the pantheon of great newspaper strip cartoonists," said Gary Groth, President & Publisher of Fantagraphics Books. "Our Pogo books will present Kelly's work the way it should be published -- in a beautifully designed hardcover format, with careful attention paid to reproduction quality, and with knowledgeable introductory material."

"I am very excited that Fantagraphics has chosen to publish Pogo in such wonderful books," said Carolyn Kelly, Walt's daughter. "For many years people have been telling me how much they want to own this series, and I am thrilled that Pogo will now be so carefully compiled and available to us. Ol' Walt would be proud."

"This collection has been a long time coming," said Jeff Smith, "I've been waiting for it ever since I was nine. I'm very happy to be helping the Kelly family and Fantagraphics bring this comic strip masterpiece to a new audience."

POGO will join Fantagraphics' prestigious lineup of the world's best newspaper strip cartoonists — George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), E.C. Segar (Popeye), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), and Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace), as well as the company's contemporary cartoonists (including Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Daniel Clowes, Robert Crumb, Jules Feiffer, Jim Woodring, Carol Tyler, Peter Bagge, Tony Millionaire, and others).

[john_constantine]

Arf alors Fantagraphics ont vraiment de bonnes choses, mais là il est pas en préco, et déjà pour le fletcher Hanks c'était pareil !

[FredGri]

Oui, j'ai beau chercher, je ne le vois pas, je pense que je vais carrément poser la question a Fantagraphics !!!! Sinon, le lien que tu m'as passé est terrible, il faudrait que je fasse une simulation pour voir a peu pres ce que pourraient etre les Fdp

[cocol2t]

Y'a ce truc là sur Ebay (France)termine dans 7 heures. Ca a l'air d'être dans tes prix (même en achat immédiat) :

http://cgi.ebay.fr/POGO-prisoner-of-...QQcmdZViewItem

[FredGri]

En ce qui concerne l'éventuelle sortie du premier tome de complete Pogo...

"Hi Fred,

It's been pushed back from October, but yes, we do plan to start it,
probably early next year. If your local comics shop orders from
Diamond or any big distributor they should be able to get it for you.

-- Kim Thompson"

[FredGri]

Bon, souvenez vous qu'il y a déjà 4 ans on se demandait quand ca sortirait ))))

Bon, une vidéo et des images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantagr...09678907/show/

Dans un peu moins de deux semaines, c'est sensé être une réalité...
J'espère que les intéressés vont sauter sur l'occasion de se régaler les yeux et que els autres seront suffisamment intrigués (ca devrait bien plaire aux fans du style de Jeff Smith par exemple !)

Pour en savoir plus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comics%29

[FredGri]

Bon, je viens de voir sur le PDF qu'on peut récupérer ici que Fantagraphics avait pensé mettre les strips parus dans le New York Star, c'est super, on manque tout de même les comics entre 43 et 48, chez Dell, mais tant pis, ici il s'agit des strips, peut être qu'on aura ce qui a précédé à un moment, si les volumes Fantagraphics fonctionnent ! (Après, moi je ne sais pas ce que valent ces histoires...)

[gillesC]

J'ai un petit format poche des 60's... ça te dit?

[FredGri]

C'est du strip dedans non ? C'est paru chez qui d'ailleurs ?

[gillesC]

Euh... je vais voir (sans doute une de ces innombrables paperbackfactories...)