Cartoon Research at Comic Con 2023
I’ll be at the big San Diego Comic Con this year – and here’s what I’m doing there.
Tag Archives: Pogo
Pogo Birthday Special Part II: Todd Kausen and the Family Birthday
In this post, I am focusing on the perspective of Chuck Jones’s grandson Todd – who was credited for idea behind the Pogo Birthday Special.
The Bill Tytla Animated Pogo Special That Never Was
The story of how two former Disney animators, Walt Kelly and Bill Tytla, tried to produce a television special of Kelly’s Pogo comic strip – and why it never came to pass.
Pogo Special Birthday Special
Walt Kelly’s popular comic strip Pogo was turned into a network prime time TV special in 1969, with Chuck Jones as director, in the hopes it could kickstart an animated franchise like Peanuts.
Animation Anecdotes #123
That Kelly Girl. Selby Kelly applied to the Disney studio by sending in her portfolio and was hired as an artist by mail without having ever actually physically meeting anyone…
