Oh, I lie ethis take on Austin. The forelegs work, and the dark band on the muzzle and ears have a different but flowy vibe.

Thank you! ... I was trying to think how I'd draw the Rackety-Coon Chile but with more snout. Felt really good about the forelegs, though; I think that's just an angle that my brain kind of understands there.

actually, that might make it a bit more exciting!

also:
hey KT, so do you still tawk phunny? :)

Well, yeah, since the only really important thing is that the days have unique identifiers we might as well put them in any order.

... I don't know, I haven't knoticed KT talking all that peculiarly.

uh, I'm not sure why I thought that was him, lol. sorry

Not to worry! There's a suspicious family resemblance after all and he peeks around here on rare occasion.

I had to open up the image and count the arms, because that too is what I thought at first.

Aw, nice. Maybe I'll try sneaking a KT picture in sometime nobody's expecting.

Pogo's severely underappreciated.

Oh, I don't know; I think it's well-appreciated, but under-known. It's surely the most important (American) comic strip to have basically no online presence and someone really should be doing strip-a-day repeats so it can be read the way Krazy Kat, Skippy, Thimble Theater, or Peanuts are.

I mean, the difference between those two things is largely splitting hairs; can't appreciate what isn't known.

One known problem with getting Pogo the appreciation it deserves is just how largely incomplete the preservation of the whole thing is; I compared the collection of old paperbacks I have with the Complete Syndicated Strips books I own (nowhere near all eight of the 11 planned volumes, sadly), and the difference in both what's present and how it's presented is like night and day; entire strips missing in the paperbacks, new panels done up to fill gaps in what was never intended as a series of uninterrupted longer-form comics, no Sunday strips, etc.

Like, man. Even Peanuts had to go through a process of finding all the strips that slipped through the cracks in the first run of paperbacks, and that's a well-loved strip with a ton of adaptations into other media.

Pogo? We're still trying to find the rest of the little guy's strips.

I don't disagree with you, but man would that be hard to pull off. XD

I do feel like it's only a matter of time before Pogo gets rediscovered, though. Ours is a zeitgeist in desperate need of swamp-dwelling goobers who somehow time and again manage to pull off being the Marx Brothers, scathing political commentators, and thoughtful philosophers within the same storyline, sometimes even the same panel.

I have very much appreciated the work the Complete Pogo run has done in getting all the strips including the ones overlooked in earlier compilations! Also that they've made it into the 60s without the project petering out; there've been several attempts at complete-reprints, at least of the weekday strips, and I don't think any got past about 1955. My only disappointment is that I don't know that the interstitial work or the altered panels done for earlier book collections get preserved anywhere and that's a pity. (The Complete Peanuts --- and I'm sure you know this, but people reading our conversation might not --- got to end with a volume of intriguing ephemera, like the couple pages Schulz drew for the Peanuts comic book or long-form ads for Ford or stuff. There's got to be mountains of that for Pogo.)

I'm hoping there's going to be a fresh era of Pogo appreciation, but it's hard to forecast these things. I am glad I can at least point people to the library and they can see a good representative slice of the comics. But someone, the Kelly estate or one of the main comic strip sites, rerunning a strip-a-day would make a huge difference.