Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr.or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. In 1941 Kelly transferred at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth25 August 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'!
If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.
A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.
A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.
Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source. Breathin! (Churchy to Howland)
You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.
Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.