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Walt Kelly

Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973) was active/lived in New York, California.  Walt Kelly is known for Illustrator-cartoonist.

Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, was a cartoonist and humorist of considerable talent. He used his own personal version of the Okefenokee Swamp as a slapstick wonderland and populated it with a wild array of talking, wisecracking, animals. He also drew for comic books, worked in animation for Disney, and served for a time as a political cartoonist.

Walter Crawford Kelly was born in Philadelphia. He moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1915, along with, as he put it, "father, mother, sister and sixteen teeth, all his own." The desire to be an artist occurred to him in childhood, and while he was in high school he drew not only for the school paper and yearbook, but also for the local newspaper. One of the things he drew for the paper was a biographical comic strip about P.T. Barnum, a flamboyant character Kelly was fond of all his life. In the middle 1930s, young Kelly sold a bit of work to the fledgling comic books. For Major Nicholsons New Comics, he did a few centerspreads based on   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4738 characters.]  Artist bio

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