Coming to a boil slowly on the back burner at Fantagraphics Books, a new, revised Complete Pogo, re-commencing the reprint project begun in July 1992 and interrupted in June 2000 at Volume 11, having 
reprinted the daily strips through February 2, 1954. This fresh endeavor begins where the first project did — with the Pogo incarnation at the New York Star, where creator Walt Kelly served as art director (which duties included editorial cartooning as well as all graphic decorations and furbelows) — but improves upon the earlier version by including, for the first time ever, the Sundays, in blazing color. The series’ first volume (11x9-inch pages, $35), slated to appear sometime next year, includes a biographical introduction by Kelly biographer Steve Thompson and high-steppin’ footnotes jammed together at the back where the obscure topical references in this satirical masterpiece are explained (by yrs trly).
And that’s probably enough touting of the works and productions of the publisher who sends me checks, occasionally, for my contributions to The Comics Journal, in print and at its website incarnation, tcj.com, for which I concoct a blog three times a week on newspaper comic strips. Just so you know how thoroughly corrupt all this seemingly reasonable exposition is.
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