Swamp Peanuts
- By : Nat
- Category : Uncategorized
Graphic novelist Doug TenNapel posted this shot of a 1966 Pogo original on Facebook the other day:
It looks to be the room of Pogo character Rackety Coon Chile, an energetic youngster. And what does it have… besides lots of wonderful detail and the exquisite line work that makes Walt Kelly one of the greats? Well, if you look down left-of-center on the floor in the image, you’ll see this:
That’s right, Rackety has been reading Peanuts. In fact, given the title of the book, he’s reading the first volume issued by Rinehart & Co. in 1952, collecting the early strips. Ah, but wasn’t that only issued in softcover? Yeeeessssss…. but given the lack of any pictures on the cover, this looks like it’s been privately re-bound. Perhaps it’s a library copy.
I’d like a nice hardbound copy of the first Peanuts book! Far more than that, I’d like a nice Walt Kelly original, like this! (I’ve got a bit of an original art collection, but no Kelly. And before anyone asks: no Schulz, either.)
