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{{copy edit|date=February 2019|for=Fix up URL display in refs}}{{Infobox comic book title | title = Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | schedule = inconcistent | format = Hardcover | 1shot = | genre = Humour Satire Political commentary Anthropomorphic animals | publisher = Fantagraphics Books | date = | startmo = December 5, | startyr = 2011 | endmo = | endyr = | issues = 5 published of 12 planned | main_char_team = Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Porky Pine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Miz Hepzibah, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl | issn = | writers = Walt Kelly | artists = Walt Kelly | pencillers = | inkers = | letterers = | colorists = | editors = Carolyn Kelly, Kim Thompson, Mark Evanier, Eric Reynolds | creative_team_month = | creative_team_year = | creators = | CEheader = | TPB = | ISBN = | subcat = | altcat = | sort = | addpubcat# = | nonUS = }} Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books collecting the complete run of the Pogo comic strips, a daily and a Sunday strip written and drawn by Walt Kelly, for the first time[1]. Originally syndicated by Post-Hall Syndicate between 1949 and 1975 after its debut in the New York Star newspaper 1948. During the strip's golden days in the mid 1950s it had an estimated readership of 37 million people in total, this while being distributed in approximatley 450 different newspapers.[2] The first volume of this reprint series was released in December 2011. BackgroundUp until Fantagraphics began publishing this Pogo hardcover collection, the only somewhat complete trade paperback series released by Simon & Schuster from 1951 to 1973[3], had been the most comprehensive collection of the comic strip. 'Somewhat complete' in this case meaning: missing sequences, dropped panels, abriged plot lines and sometimes insupplemented new drawings.[4] Fantagraphics had during the 1990s published an incomplete collection of the Pogo comic strips in a eleven volume softcover series, this output managed to cover five and a half years of the strip's run.[5] On February 15, 2007 Fantagraphics Books announced that they had gotten the rights to publish a complete edition of Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, a to be 12 volume comprehensive hardcover collection with the scheduled launch in October 2007.[6] Post launch the books of the series were projected to come out on a rough annual basis.[7] In May, 2007 Gary Groth of Fantagraphics Books reached out to comic collectors of all sorts in order to help Fantagraphics get a hold of as good source materials as possible to make sure this new collection would become the best that could be upbringed.[8] Time went on, in July 2008, one of the series' editor, Eric Reynolds, stated that he and Fantagraphics had been having a hard time securing good enough source material to reproduce from for the first couple of years of the comic strip. He also estimated that the series' first volume would come out during fall 2009.[9] By the time of January 2011, it had become a running gag in comic circles online for someone to be: "still waiting on Pogo", everytime Fantagraphics announced another new reprint series of theirs, since they orginally set out to launch the Pogo collection they had gotten the rights to now four years earlier, never seemed to get a date for its release. In the meantime Fantagraphics had claimed, begun collecting and reprinting titles such as Prince Valiant, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Carl Barks' Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories. Fantagraphics Books' co-publisher as well as co-editor of the Pogo series, Kim Thompson, then made an announcement via the company blog saying Fantagraphics were sorry for the long delay and that the first volume of the complete Pogo series would finally be released in the fall of 2011.[10] After several years with delays the first volume of the series was sent to the printers in August 2011.[11] Soon after, in December the same year this first volume was finally released.[12] One year later the second volume followed.[13] Kim Thompson, dies of lung cancer on June 19, 2013, just four months after the diagnose.[14] In the aftermath of his death Fantagraphics as a publisher faced economic difficulties due in part, to a major loss of sales that fiscal year, which in turn was a result of the postponing of 13 of their upcoming titles, a third of the company's scheduled total output that year. These 13 were all titles which Thompson had been in charge of editing. [15] To keep the company a float after all this turmoil, Fantagraphics launched a Kickstarter-campaign on the 5:th of November, 2013, the campaign is succesfull and manages to save the day.[16][17] However the Pogo series suffers from Thompson's passing and once again got knocked of its schedule. The third volume of the series was later released in November 2014, the volume was dedicated to Kim Thompson, "a good friend of Pogo", but lacking Thompson's name sharing the book's editorial co-credit.[18]On April 9, 2017 Carolyn Kelly, co-editor of the series and daughter of its creator Walt Kelly, passes away after a long battle against breast cancer and its complications.[19] She had been responsible for painting the covers in the beginning of the series (volume 1-4), designing the books, restoring source material where it was needed and supervised this whole reprint project of her dad's work. Mark Evanier, another of the series' editors stated that by the time of her death, the work of their Pogo series had come to a point when the major need of restoration jobs for the strips were done since they had come into series' mid life years and source material was no longer scarce nor in horrible shape. Restoring needeed for upcoming books would not be to the same degree as before.[20] FormatThe clothbound[21] hardcover volumes of this series measure 9.25 inch × 11.25 inch (235 mm × 286 mm), have embossed covers and each comes with a dust jacket. The book design was done by Carolyn Kelly. Each volume is comprised of approximatley 340 pages and contain two years worth of chronological daily comic strips reproduced in black-and-white (just as the original newspaper publication were), as well as the entire sequence of color Sunday strips originally published during that same period. The daily one-row strips are arranged three per page and separated from the standalone full page Sunday strips.[22] Extras such as: prefaces by Jimmy Breslin[23], Stan Freberg[24] among others, weekly plot summaries of the strips, indexes for the comic strips, annotations by comics historian R.C. Harvey, samples of Walt Kelly's original art and a biography of Walt Kelly, written by Steve Thompson, are included in each book.[25] The volumes are available as individual volumes and in slipcase sets of two, the suggested retail price for the two first single volumes was $39,99,[26] after these initial two volumes and a release hiatus from new volumes lasting a little over three years (2014-2018), the price per volume was raised to $45. Regarding the box sets th first had the MSRP of $69,99 set in 2012 while the second box released in 2018 was priced to the MSRP of $75.[27][28] Volumes & box sets
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