The brilliant Walt Kelly, once Disney artists and creators, artists and writers of Pogo, one of the greatest comic strips aver produced, at one point turned his hand to an interpretation (there you want to call it) familiar by Clement of Moore's Christmas poem A visit from St. Nicholas, which many young children know by its first line, "was the night before Christmas".
Kelly's beautiful launches loopy version, infused with a little political satire for its time, the poem:
' Twas of the night before Christmas.
All through the Moon
No creature was stirring
Not even a spoon;
and is too stupid to get from there.
Roger Ebert, jolly old soul has gifted us dashing through their version of the story with the reprint of Kelly's comic strip with Pogo and Albert and high-resolution images (click on that, in the column), with which we extra holiday cheer in Kelly's beautiful pen and ink lines can find included.
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