Walt Kelly (Churchy LaFemme)

[David Casseres]

Ol' Harrison sez more:

>At Dell, [Walt Kelly] illustrated Walt Disney
>Comics & Stories covers & interiors, New Fun Comics and Animal Comics.
>It was in the last title he introduced what later became his footnote
>character, Pogo the Possum along with the other cast members of the
>Okefenokee swamp.

Bingo, the beginning of a hint of a Connexion: that strip was called 
Bumbazine, which is obviously a respelling of bombazine, and we were just 
talking about that the other day right here on this List!  For those 
who've been too immersed in the history of Jesuitry to notice the Telling 
Details, it's a kind of fabric, and it shows up at the Gloucestershire 
house of Peach the clothier in Mason & Dixon.  Now why would Our Comics 
Fan bring up bombazine in Particular, if not to foreshadow the eventual 
Reference, sure to be found by one of us, to that Prince of the Swamp and 
his friends?


Cheers,
David