Politics of the Funnies Part 1
Imaginary Worlds
The Life of a Comic Strip Artist
His drawing style was very influenced by disney, because kelly actually worked at disney as an animator for fivea s. When he left the studio and moved back east, he got into comic books where he began to develop the characters that would end up in pogo. Kelly also convinced the syndicate that distributed pogo to give him full ownership. It's a complicated story how that happened, but it put him in a rare position among comic strip artists. If you didn't own your own ip a syndicate could tell you to censor your material, or they could fire you and replace you with a different artist on your own strip.
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