Review of Positively Pogo

Walt Kelly,  Positively Pogo, Simon and Schuster. The book starts off with singing TV commercials, dog lessons, and practice drowning. This is followed in rapid succession by judo lessons, edible money, other money-making schemes, like the drive-in self-service funeral parlor, and the nature of true friendship. Later, we learn how to talk to fish. One of the interesting things about this comic strip is that people talk to fish, and sometimes play with them, but they also eat them. Frequently. This is pretty close to cannibalism, and it happens in many if not most of the books. We also discover an inexpensive but unpopular way to get from New Jersey to the Okefenokee. Travel is all well and good, but there's no place like home, especially if somebody noticed you were gone. We also encounter a rabbit-powered clock and a sea serpent, which is the strong silent type.<br><br>

Mr Pig, who bears a striking resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev, poles his way into the swamp on a raft. Things do not go well.<br><br>

Next, Pogo and Mouse inadvertently visit Australia just in time for the Olympics. When they finally get back to the swamp, it's time for carol practice. This quickly devolves into a semantic analysis of The 12 Days of Christmas, with a discussion of the nature of love on the side.<br><br>

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And happy birthday to one of my two favorite sisters!