Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips HC (2011- FB) comic books

Set #1 Includes Volume 1-2 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

An attractive slipcased gift box set containing the first two volumes in Fantagraphics' best selling Pogo reprint series for the budget minded customer. offered again from Fantagraphics Books.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format 2 Volumes with Slipcase), 12-in. x 9-in., 688 pages (Total), PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $69.99.

Set #2 Includes Volume 3-4 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956's daily Pogo strips for the first time anywhere, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years in full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections 60 years ago! Plus the usual in-depth annotations, samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more! And, for the holidays, we're also releasing a handsome slipcased set of this volume and Vol. 3.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format 2 Volumes with Slipcase), 12-in. x 9-in., 688 pages (Total), PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $75.00.

Set #3 Includes Volume 5-6 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

This season, we also present a gift boxed set of 2018's Vol. 5 and the new Vol. 6, just in time for the holidays! In Volume 5, the Okefenokee gang try to dig a canal to compete with the Suez!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format 2 Volumes with Slipcase), 12-in. x 9-in., 688 pages (Total), PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $75.00.

Set #4 Includes Volume 7-8 (with Slipcase) - Printings may vary.

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

This season, we also present a gift boxed set of 2021's Vol. 7 and the new Vol. 8, just in time for the holidays!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format 2 Volumes with Slipcase), 12-in. x 9-in., 688 pages (Total), PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $79.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Through the Wild Blue Wonder (1949-1950)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Jimmy Breslin.

Our first volume (of 12) collects approximately the first two years of Pogo dailies and, for the first time, full-color Sundays. First created in the 1940's, Pogo blended nonsense language, poetry, and socio-political satire, presaging later strips such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks. Special features in this premiere volume include a biographical introduction, an extensive glossary by comics historian R.C. Harvey and a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 360 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $39.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Bona Fide Balderdash (1951-1952)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Stan Freberg.

Following the best selling Pogo Volume 1, this new volume finds Walt Kelly at the peak of his powers and features page after page of gorgeously drawn vaudevillian dialogue and action whilst introducing a host of new characters to the swamp. Created during the 1952 political season, Bona Fide Balderdash also features Kelly's acidic political satire and reprints, for the first time ever in full color, two full years of Sunday pages plus extensive historical annotation by comic strip historian R.C. Harvey and an introduction by Stan Freberg!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $39.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Evidence to the Contrary (1953-1954)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

WALT KELLY TURNS UP THE POLITICAL HEAT IN VOLUME THREE OF THE COMPLETE POGO - It's in this volume (featuring another two years' worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly's boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey's face were to appear in it again. Kelly's response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character's head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly's layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a "Rhode Island Red" hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.) The entirety of these sequences can be found in this book.

But the Malarkey storyline is only a tiny portion of those rich, eventful two years, which include such classic sequences as con-man Seminole Sam's attempts to corner the market on water (which Porkypine's Uncle Baldwin tries to one-up by cornering the market on dirt); a return engagement of Pup Dog and Houn'dog's blank-eyed Little Orphan Annie parody "Li'l Arf and Nonny"; Churchy La Femme going in drag to deliver a love poem he wrote, Cyrano style, on Deacon Mushrat's behalf to Sis Boombah (the aforementioned hen); P.T. Bridgeport's return to the swamp in search of new talent; and of course two rousing choruses of "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie." In addition to presenting all of 1953 and 1954's daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo Volume 3: "Evidence to the Contrary" also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago - plus the usual in-depth "Swamp Talk" historical annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 368 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Vote Pogo (1955-1956)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956's daily Pogo strips for the first time anywhere, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years in full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections 60 years ago! Plus the usual in-depth annotations, samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 368 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Out of this World At Home (1957-1958)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

In addition to presenting all of 1957 and 1958's daily Pogo strips complete in order for the first time, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 5 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, in lush full color for the first time in 60 years! Pogo Vol. 5 also includes a foreword by lifelong Pogo fan and CNN anchor Jake Tapper plus the usual in-depth "Swamp Talk" annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 344 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Clean as a Weasel (1959-1960)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly.

Volume 6 presents all 104 Sunday Pogo strips from 1959-1960 in full-color for the first time since their original appearance.

Albert Alligator and Beauregard Bugleboy fend off a man-from-Mars, and Howland Owl investigates Communist espionage in the postal system. Then, its election time and Okefenokee Swamp gets a new presidential candidate, Fremount the Bugboy, sparking a political debate about just who can be president - maybe even a woman! With an introduction by Jim "Garfield" Davis and supplementary features by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 344 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Pockets Full of Pie (1961-1962)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Sergio Aragones.

This series represents the first time Pogo has been collected complete and in chronological order anywhere, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper section, as well as gorgeous black-and-white reproductions of Kelly's elegant dailies.

This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others.

All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 360 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty (1963-1964)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Lucy Caswell.

Collects the years 1963 and 1964 of the classic newspaper strip whose political satire feels more timely than ever.

Using the platform of Pogo, Walt Kelly tackled many of the sociopolitical issues of his day: the Red Scare, civil rights, the environment, consumerism. But the strip is also a joyous, poignant, beautifully drawn, and occasionally profound work of 20th-century popular culture. Each volume contains two full years of restored black-and-white daily strips plus all 104 Sundays from the same period.

For the first time since their original appearance more than 50 years ago, the Sundays are in full, glorious color.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 344 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $49.99.