[lbo-talk] Re: Project Pompous ;-)

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Tue Oct 17 07:30:31 PDT 2006


Carl wrote:

> I think Ravi's objecting to the highfalutin gothic text used in the

> headline "Project Posner." One of the inspired touches about the

> late Walt Kelly's classic comic strip "Pogo," set in Okefenokee

> Swamp, was the pious and censorious character Deacon Mushrat, who

> spoke in caption balloons using gothic lettering. At one point

> during the early '60s heydey of the John Birch Society, "Pogo"

> chronicled the Deacon's efforts to purge the Okefenokee of

> anti-Americanism via his own creation, the "Jack Acid Society."

my recollection is that it was Kelly's version of the John Birch Society - the "Jack Ash Society" (Berezovsky a charter member?)

john mage



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