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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Meta-humor in Pogo
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 03:33:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  7 03:33:40 1985
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> In article <800@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes:
> 
> The old "Pogo" strip by Walt Kelly was good for this sort of thing.
> Characters would often lean against the edge of the cartoon frame or
> refer to things that happened "in the last panel."
> 

My favorite example of this is a frame in showing Pogo, Churchy, and Albert
(I think) getting into a boat.  All of the shapes are blacked in.  Churchy
is saying, "These silhouettes sure saves a mess of drawing."
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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