Walt Kelly
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo.
Background
- Born in
- Philadelphia
- Educated at
- Art Students League of New YorkWarren Harding High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Inkpot Award🏆 Silver Reuben Award🏆 Reuben Award🏆 Will Eisner Hall of Fame🏆 Museum of Cartoon Art Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded."
"If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout."
"Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!"
"The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter."
"The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either."
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Timeline
1913
Born
Birth1973
Died
Death
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